Conjugation is a form of horizontal gene transfer that allows the exchange of genetic material between two organisms or cells. In this article, we discuss the mechanism of conjugation and how ...

Since the discovery of bacterial conjugation in the 1940s, much research has been done to show how two bacterial cells initially contact each other in preparation for transfer.

Conjugation has classically been considered a bacterium-to-bacterium DNA transfer driven by the donor cell and is typically plasmid-encoded. Theoretically it is possible that any type of cell can ...

Bacteria Disarm Phages by Disrupting Their Tail Assembly Attachment of a bacterial protein to the tips of phage tails produces non-infectious, tailless phages.