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Virulence genes in bacterial pathogens are often A/T-rich and horizontally acquired, yet they must be translated efficiently under stress and nutrient limitation encountered during infection. Here we ...

Paillat et al. show that Flavobacterium johnsoniae combines type VI and type IX secretion systems with gliding motility to efficiently kill diverse bacterial competitors. They demonstrate that nutrien...

Rhizobia, the nitrogen-fixing symbionts of legumes, emerged through repeated and independent horizontal transfers of some essential symbiotic genes. However, these transfers alone are often insufficie...

Zagieboylo and colleagues demonstrate that the human commensal Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron secretes two self-targeting proteins that induce heterogeneity within its own population. Differential expre...