Broad host range plasmids can invade an unexpectedly diverse fraction of a soil bacterial community

Single-Cell Analyses Revealed Transfer Ranges of IncP-1, IncP-7, and IncP-9 Plasmids in a Soil Bacterial Community

(2013) Masaki Shintani et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Scourge of Antibiotic Resistance: The Important Role of the Environment

(2013) R. L. Finley et al.   CLINICAL INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Broad host range plasmids

(2013) Aayushi Jain et al.   FEMS MICROBIOLOGY LETTERS

Host range diversification within the IncP-1 plasmid group

(2013) H. Yano et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

The Detection and Sequencing of a Broad-Host-Range Conjugative IncP-1β Plasmid in an Epidemic Strain of Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. bolletii

(2013) Sylvia Cardoso Leão et al.   PLoS One

Diverse and abundant antibiotic resistance genes in Chinese swine farms

(2013) Yong-Guan Zhu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Long-term manure exposure increases soil bacterial community potential for plasmid uptake

(2013) Sanin Musovic et al.   Environmental Microbiology Reports

Early life treatment with vancomycin propagates Akkermansia muciniphila and reduces diabetes incidence in the NOD mouse

(2012) C. H. F. Hansen et al.   DIABETOLOGIA

Insights into the bovine rumen plasmidome

(2012) A. B. Kav et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Shared Antibiotic Resistome of Soil Bacteria and Human Pathogens

(2012) K. J. Forsberg et al.   SCIENCE

IncP-1ε Plasmids are Important Vectors of Antibiotic Resistance Genes in Agricultural Systems: Diversification Driven by Class 1 Integron Gene Cassettes

(2012) Holger Heuer et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Genome sequence analyses of two isolates from the recent Escherichia coli outbreak in Germany reveal the emergence of a new pathotype: Entero-Aggregative-Haemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EAHEC)

(2011) Elzbieta Brzuszkiewicz et al.   ARCHIVES OF MICROBIOLOGY

Lateral gene transfer

(2011) Olga Zhaxybayeva et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Trends and barriers to lateral gene transfer in prokaryotes

(2011) Ovidiu Popa et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Directed networks reveal genomic barriers and DNA repair bypasses to lateral gene transfer among prokaryotes

(2011) O. Popa et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Reducing the Effects of PCR Amplification and Sequencing Artifacts on 16S rRNA-Based Studies

(2011) Patrick D. Schloss et al.   PLoS One

The IncP-1 plasmid backbone adapts to different host bacterial species and evolves through homologous recombination

(2011) Peter Norberg et al.   Nature Communications

Novel Assay To Assess Permissiveness of a Soil Microbial Community toward Receipt of Mobile Genetic Elements

(2010) S. Musovic et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

UniFrac: an effective distance metric for microbial community comparison

(2010) Catherine Lozupone et al.   ISME Journal

Predicting Plasmid Promiscuity Based on Genomic Signature

(2010) H. Suzuki et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Conjugative plasmids: vessels of the communal gene pool

(2009) A. Norman et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Network analyses structure genetic diversity in independent genetic worlds

(2009) S. Halary et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA