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Plasmids of IncA and IncC incompatibility groups have been combined into IncA/C since 1970s, but IncA and IncC groups are essentially compatible (Ambrose et al., 2018) and have significant nucleotide ...

In this valuable study, the authors studied a novel Zn2+- and NAD+-independent KDAC protein, AhCobQ, in Aeromonas hydrophila, which lacks homology with eukaryotic counterparts, thus underscoring its ...

As in other organisms, diversification in bacteria leads to entities that we call species, which group together organisms that have evolved separately from others. Species can be differentiated from ...