Figure 1: Diagram showing the process of generalized bacterial transduction. A) Bacteriophage binding and infection. B) Bacteriophage replication. C) Cell lysis and bacteriophage release. D) ...

Bacteriophages (or phages) are viruses that infect and parasitize bacteria. These phages can transfer DNA from one bacterium to another, through a process known as genetic transduction. This is ...

Bacteria have a sneaky evolutionary advantage: their own version of the internet for swapping survival solutions. It’s a living network of viruses that can shuttle genetic information between ...

Transduction is the biological process by which DNA is transferred into a cell with the aid of a viral vector. This may take place naturally between bacterium via a bacteriophage in an example of ...

Bacterial chemotaxis is a sophisticated behavioural ... chemotaxis proteins (MCPs), which initiate intracellular signal transduction cascades upon binding attractants or repellents.

During this process, some bacterial DNA may also be packaged and transferred, but this mechanism, called transduction, is thought to be rare and accidental. Now, John Chen and colleagues have ...

This is typical of eukaryotes, though a defined, functional autoproteolytic event for transmembrane signal transduction has not been seen in bacteria until now. Using the bacteria C. thermocellum ...

A virus can transfer genetic material, and thereby hereditary traits, from one bacterium to another. The phenomenon sheds light on the behavior of viruses and the mechanism of heredity ...