The gut bacterium Bacteroides fragilis has long presented researchers with a paradox. It has been associated with colorectal cancer, yet it also lives quite happily in most healthy people. A new study ...
Scientists found an unexpected viral hitchhiker lurking inside a common gut bacterium – and it was twice as prevalent in ...
Genomic islands (GIs) are large genomic regions (typically 10–200 kb in length) that are found in bacterial genomes and that have probably been horizontally acquired. GIs disproportionately carry ...