With more than 50,000 described species, the leaf beetle family is distributed worldwide and represents about a quarter of the species diversity of all herbivores. Leaf beetles can be found to feed on ...

The study of the human microbiome has revealed a vital role in the emergence, persistence, and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), largely ...

A novel iLDS statistic uncovers adaptive gene sweeps in gut bacteria, highlighting evolutionary responses to modern diets and enhancing microbiome studies.

The study reveals that environmental stressors do not merely kill bacteria; they can also prime surviving cells to take up resistance genes more ...

Viruses living on plastic surfaces may help transfer antibiotic resistance genes among microbes in the environment.

Following the Indore water contamination tragedy, concerns over antibiotic-resistant E. coli are rising. Discover the key ...

Viruses living on plastic surfaces could be contributing to the spread of antibiotic resistance, raising global environmental ...

Plastics entering natural environments quickly become coated with microbial biofilms called the 'plastisphere', known to be hotspots for antibiotic resistance genes, the team, including researchers ...