When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria—like plants and animals—are organized into species, he upended a long-held scientific belief. Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to ...

However, new findings from Konstantinidis and his team suggest otherwise, positing that bacteria not only form species but also maintain cohesion within these species through mechanisms that closely ...

A study by Georgia Tech researchers finds that bacteria maintain species cohesion through homologous recombination, a form of frequent and random DNA exchange. This process keeps microbial species ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

In collaboration with colleagues from international partner institutions, researchers at the University of Cologne have ...

Those outlier liaisons gave whiptails robust heterozygosity, which has been preserved by the identical replication—essentially, cloning—that occurs in asexual reproduction. It’s a genetic ...

Bacteria reproduce by cloning themselves through binary fission - a kind of asexual reproduction. In the right conditions, they can reproduce very quickly. Some species can replicate themselves in ...