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Exclusive: ‘Fish sludge’ in coastal waters now has nutrient levels equivalent to those in untreated effluent of country the size of Australia, report finds Norwegian fish farms are filling fjords and other coastal waters with nutrient pollution equivalent to the raw sewage of tens of millions of people each year, a report has found. Norway is the largest farmed salmon producer in the world, and nutrients in fish feed are excreted directly into coastal waters. Analysis from the Sunstone Institute found that Norwegian aquaculture released 75,000 tonnes of nitrogen, 13,000 tonnes of phosphorus and 360,000 tonnes of organic carbon in 2025. Continue reading...

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Phage Tn-seq uses Tn5 transposon mutagenesis with anti-CRISPR-based selection and deep sequencing as a method to generate unbiased, genome-wide mutations across diverse phages

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Heritable microbes profoundly influence insect biology, yet the traits they confer often evolve rapidly and differ among closely related symbiont s...

This platform identifies phages capable of infecting specific bacterial strains using genome sequences alone and could enable rational phage-therapy design and precision microbiome engineering.

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Selective DNA delivery to specific members of assembled bacterial communities remains challenging. Bacterial conjugation enables efficient DNA delivery, but transfer to non-target recipients limits its specificity within mixed communities. Here, we repurpose plasmid entry exclusion (Eex) as a recipient-side gate to control conjugative DNA delivery. We demonstrate selective plasmid delivery to Eex-negative recipients within populations containing both Eex-expressing and Eex-negative cells. This recipient selectivity was maintained at increased cell densities and during prolonged mating. By combining RP4-type and F-type conjugation systems with their corresponding exclusion modules, we further directed DNA delivery from distinct donors to defined recipient populations. RP4-derived Eex also functioned in environmental bacteria, including Pseudomonas putida and Sphingobium japonicum, enabling recipient-specific exclusion within a multispecies mixture. Furthermore, repeated cycles of Eex-guided conjugation and selection altered community composition after assembly. These results establish entry exclusion as a recipient-side strategy for selective conjugative DNA delivery and, when combined with selection, for controlling the composition of assembled bacterial communities. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, https://ror.org/00hhkn466, 19K15725, 25K18154, 24KJ0025 Institute for Fermentation, Y-2024-1-007

Bacterial defence systems are diverse and form major barriers to horizontal gene transfer and bacteriophage (phage) infection. Though restriction-modification systems were the first such defences disc...

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SUMMARYRNA modifications in the tRNA, rRNA, and mRNA constitute a widespread layer of post-transcriptional gene regulation, commonly known as the epitranscriptome. In bacteria, tRNA and rRNA modificat...

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