Bacterial genomes evolve through mutations, rearrangements or horizontal gene transfer.
Besides the core genes encoding essential metabolic functions, bacterial genomes also …

R alstonia solanacearum is a soil‐borne bacterium causing the widespread disease known
as bacterial wilt. R alstonia solanacearum is also the causal agent of M oko disease of …

Cell-associated ARGs in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) has been concerned,
however, cell-free ARGs in WWTPs was rarely studied. In this study, the abundances of four …

An ozone treatment system was investigated to analyze its impact on clinically relevant
antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs). A concentration of …

Background Ralstonia solanacearum is a soil-borne beta-proteobacterium that causes
bacterial wilt disease in many food crops and is a major problem for agriculture in …

The occurrence of new chemical and microbiological contaminants in the aquatic
environment has become an issue of increasing environmental concern. Thus, wastewater …

We used multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) on a worldwide collection of the plant
pathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum (Betaproteobacteria) to retrace its complex evolutionary …

The flow of genes between different species represents a form of genetic variation whose
implications have not been fully appreciated. Here I examine some key findings on the …

Understanding the extreme variation among bacterial genomes remains an unsolved
challenge in evolutionary biology, despite long-standing debate about the relative …

Sequence analysis of bacterial genomes has revealed a tremendous potential for protein
secretion. This is certainly true for the plant pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum which is …