Rachel M. Wheatley

TL;DR: By analyzing successive lifestyle stages of a model Rhizobium–legume symbiosis using mariner-based transposon insertion sequencing (INSeq), the genes required for rhizosphere growth, root colonization, bacterial infection, N2-fixing bacteroids, and release from legume (pea) nodules are defined.

TL;DR: The current understanding of the molecular mechanisms governing plant-microbe root attachment are reviewed, and a common biphasic model of root attachment is drawn together.

TL;DR: In this article, active CRISPR-Cas systems are associated with smaller genomes and higher GC content, suggesting that these systems may constrain horizontal gene transfer in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

TL;DR: In this article, the responses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to treatment in high definition during a lung infection of a single ICU patient were mapped to high-definition images.

TL;DR: Mariner-based transposon insertion sequencing has allowed us to characterize the fitness contribution of bacterial genes and determine those functionally important in a Rhizobium-legume symbiosis at multiple stages of development.