Antibiotic resistance is recognised as a major global threat to public health by the World
Health Organization. Currently, several hundred thousand deaths yearly can be attributed to …

Background: With advances in sequencing technology and decreasing costs, the number of
phage genomes that have been sequenced has increased markedly in the past decade. …

In 1999, the population of Vancouver Island, Canada, began to experience an outbreak of a
fatal fungal disease caused by a highly virulent lineage of Cryptococcus gattii. This …

We describe a method for comparing the abundance of gene transcripts in cDNA libraries.
This method allows for the comparison of gene expression in any number of libraries, in a …

We demonstrate how a single-celled organism could undertake associative learning. Although
to date only one previous study has found experimental evidence for such learning, there …

x BASE is a genome database aimed at helping laboratory-based bacteriologists make best
use of bacterial genome sequence data, with a particular emphasis on comparative …

Escherichia coli strains were isolated from a single dairy farm as a sentinel organism for the
persistence of antibiotic resistance genes in the farm environment. Selective microbiological …

Plant root system plasticity is critical for survival in changing environmental conditions. One
important aspect of root architecture is lateral root development, a complex process …

Globally, cephalosporin therapy failure is a serious problem for infection control. One causative
agent of cephalosporin-resistant infections is multidrug-resistant (MDR) E. coli producing …

Genes required for infection of mice by Salmonella Typhimurium can be identified by the
interrogation of random transposon mutant libraries for mutants that cannot survive in vivo. …