Genome Watch

This month's Genome Watch explores the diverse microbial community involved in the bioremediation of oil spills.

This month's Genome Watch highlights recent studies that used metagenomics and single-cell genomics to gain insights into previously uncultivated and poorly characterized microbial lineages.

This month's Genome Watch highlights recent studies that have characterized the reservoir of antibiotic resistance genes in the human gut microbiota.

This month's Genome Watch investigates the role of hypermutation in chronic bacterial infection and its implications for phylogenomic analyses.

This month's Genome Watch traces the evolutionary history of powdery mildew and highlights the 'arms race' of this fungal pathogen with its wheat and barley hosts.

This month's Genome Watch looks back over the past 10 years and highlights how the incredible advances in sequencing technologies have transformed research into microbial genomes.

This month's Genome Watch highlights how the study of ancient DNA can increase our understanding of the evolution of pathogens.

This month's Genome Watch highlights how deep sequencing was used to generate the first full genomes of herpesviruses associated with a fatal disease in elephants.

This month's Genome Watch highlights recent studies demonstrating that genomic analyses of pathogens in clinical samples are not limited to culture-friendly bacteria.

This month's Genome Watch highlights a recent article that used single-cell genomics to characterize uncultivated archaea present in marine sediments.

This month's Genome Watch describes how horizontal gene transfer from bacteria and archaea has allowed an alga to live in extreme environments.

This month's Genome Watch explores recent applications of the CRISPR immune system for bacterial phylogenetic analysis and genome editing.

This month's Genome Watch highlights how deep sequencing technologies have vastly reduced the time and prior knowledge needed to generate viral genomes.

Advances in single-molecule DNA sequencing are enabling research into the fine resolution of DNA structure, and rapid, direct sequencing of pathogen genomes.

This month's Genome Watch describes the advantages of using whole-genome sequencing data for infectious-disease surveillance and infection control.

This month's Genome Watch highlights new insights into the use of bacteria in industrial processes such as electricity generation and bioremediation.

This month's Genome Watch describes how sequencing technology is providing insight into the geographical relationships and global travel of bacterial pathogens.

This month's Genome Watch describes two recent studies that used metagenomic data to characterize the role of the human gut microbiota in disease.

This month's Genome Watch highlightsin natura cases showing the role of recombination in bacterial evolution, and in vitrostudies that focus on the mechanisms of recombination.

This month's Genome Watch describes how knowledge of the malaria parasite genome can be used to better understand and mitigate the emergence of drug resistance.