Chromosome segregation and site-specific recombination are critical processes in bacterial cell division and genetic stability. These mechanisms ensure that genetic material is accurately ...

New research shows bacteria form distinct species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange via homologous recombination.

Gene conversion - the process during which homologous sequences are made identical also falls under genetic recombination. Genetic recombination and recombinational DNA repair also occurs in bacteria ...

New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This process, homologous recombination, reinforces distinct species boundaries and ...

Aberrant segregation was first clearly noted in the 1950s in genetic studies of certain fungi that allow direct examination of their four haploid products of meiosis. Normally in these fungi, a ...

Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to their unique genetic exchange mechanisms ... They found that a process called “homologous recombination” plays a major role in keeping ...

Scientists widely believed that bacteria, due to their unique genetic exchange mechanisms ... They found that a process called "homologous recombination" plays a major role in keeping microbial ...

The study also disclosed how these bacteria exchange genetic material in and between species. This process, known as ...

The bacteria are prone to deficiencies in a specific DNA repair pathway, a condition known to spur rapid mutations in bacteria, which increase the odds of drug resistance developing.