SUMMARYFungi play a critical role as the primary decomposers of wood in forest ecosystems. Wood is a nitrogen-poor resource, which constrains decomposition. One

SUMMARYFungi play a critical role as the primary decomposers of wood in forest ecosystems. Wood is a nitrogen-poor resource, which constrains decomposition. One

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Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 03 August 2026; doi:10.1038/s41579-026-01355-2In a recent study, Karash and colleagues provide evidence for a resistance mechanism in which plasmid-mediated antibiotic resistance genes are horizontally transferred from transiently infecting bacteria to antibiotic-sensitive pathogens residing in patients’ lungs.

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Abstract. MKado is a Python toolkit for performing McDonald-Kreitman (MK) tests of natural selection from aligned coding sequences. It implements the stand

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

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The African Drosophila simulivora group is among the most unusual drosophilids, with aquatic predatory larvae. Ghanavi et al. use museomics to recover a genome from Drosophila enhydrobia, revealing th...

Abstract. IQ-TREE (https://iqtree.github.io/) is a widely used open-source software tool for efficiently inferring phylogenetic trees under maximum likelih

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Emerging fungal pathogens have detrimental impacts on crops, animals, and humans, however little is known about their transition to a pathogenic lifestyle. This study demonstrates that the transition ...

Abstract. Conjugative plasmids are key drivers of bacterial adaptation, enabling the horizontal transfer of accessory genes within and across diverse micro

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Abstract. Despite the importance of gut commensal microbiota to human health, there is little knowledge about their evolutionary histories, including their