Most bacteria attach to biotic or abiotic surfaces and are embedded in a complex matrix
which is known as biofilm. Biofilm formation is especially worrisome in clinical settings as it …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a substantial threat to human health. The widespread
prevalence of AMR is, in part, due to the horizontal transfer of antibiotic resistance genes …

Mobile genetic elements are key to the evolution of bacteria and traits that affect host and
ecosystem health. Here, we use a framework of a hierarchical and modular system that …

Antibiotic resistance, which is encoded by antibiotic-resistance genes (ARGs), has
proliferated to become a growing threat to public health around the world. With technical …

Bacterial mobile genetic elements (MGEs) encode functional modules that perform both core
and accessory functions for the element, the latter of which are often only transiently …

Conjugation drives the horizontal transfer of adaptive traits across prokaryotes. One-fourth of
the plasmids encode the functions necessary to conjugate autonomously, the others being …

The emergence and spread of mobile antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in pathogens have
become a serious threat to global health. Still little is known about where ARGs gain mobility …

Bacterial conjugation mediates contact-dependent transfer of DNA from donor to recipient
bacteria, thus facilitating the spread of virulence and resistance plasmids. Here we describe …

Antibiotic resistance is rapidly spreading via the horizontal transfer of resistance genes in
mobile genetic elements. While plasmids are key drivers of this process, few integrative …

VRprofile2 is an updated pipeline that rapidly identifies diverse mobile genetic elements in
bacterial genome sequences. Compared with the previous version, three major …