Organisms must adapt to ever-changing environments, otherwise they risk being outcompeted or eliminated. To do this, they have evolved methods for importing DNA from elsewhere and utilizing it for ...

Genetic competence refers to the ability of some bacteria to undergo transformation — to take up exogenous DNA and incorporate it stably into their own genome. Naturally transformable organisms ...

This Review discusses natural bacterial transformation, highlighting the common and divergent features that exist in a phylogenetically diverse range of naturally transformable species. Transformation ...

The process of bacterial transformation involves the introduction of foreign plasmid DNA into a bacterial cell. The transformation of DNA into bacteria cells, for example, Escherichia coli (E. coli), ...

Resistant to the strong antibiotic "colistin" also described as the last fortBacteria found in ChinaIn recent years superbugs of resistant bacteria that antibiotics do not work are becoming a problem ...