New research reveals that bacteria form species and maintain cohesion through frequent DNA exchange within species. This ...

Bacteria reproduce by cloning themselves through binary fission - a kind of asexual reproduction. In the right conditions, they can reproduce very quickly. Some species can replicate themselves in ...

A study by Georgia Tech researchers finds that bacteria maintain species cohesion through homologous recombination, a form of ...

When Kostas Konstantinidis proved that many bacteria - like plants and animals - are organized into species, he upended a ...

a rare kind of cell division called multiple fission. C. matruchotii is one of the most common bacteria living in human dental plaque. Credit: Scott Chimileski, MBL. See Chimileski et al (2024), PNAS.

Unlike humans and other animals, single-celled organisms, such as bacteria and some fungi, can undergo a process called binary fission to reproduce, meaning that they duplicate their DNA and then ...

As bacteria reproduce by binary fission, the number of bacteria with this mutation can increase very quickly. The non-resistant bacteria are destroyed by the antibiotics, which removes competition.