Posts Tagged by horizontal gene transfer
Ancient bacteria resisted antibiotics they’d never met – jumping genes implicated
| September 5, 2011 | Posted by News under Ecology, horizontal gene transfer, News |
In “Antibiotic resistance found in ancient bacteria” (CBC News, Aug 31, 2011), Emily Chung reports, The same genes that make disease-causing bacteria resistant to today’s antibiotics have been found in soil bacteria that have remained frozen since woolly mammoths roamed the Earth. “We’ve shown for the first time that drug resistance is a really old… more