Genome Watch in 2013

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.