The first SCC mec that were described were types I, II and III. Currently, these types are commonly detected in MRSA strains associated with nosocomial infections ( Becker et al. 2012, Yamamoto et al.

This event is closed to the public. During the Holocene the scale and complexity of human societies increased dramatically. Generations of scholars have proposed different theories explaining this ...

This important study introduces an approach to discovering antibiotic resistance determinants by leveraging diverse susceptibility profiles among related mycobacterial species, with particular ...

Revised: This Reviewed Preprint has been revised by the authors in response to the previous round of peer review; the eLife assessment and the public reviews have been updated where necessary by the ...

Conceptual overreach Conflation of distinct mechanisms BRT erroneously combines intra-lineage processes (balancing selection, cryptic variation) with inter-lineage processes (HGT) into a single, ...

In tropical climates, lizards are everywhere. It can be a bit wild to see, and they come in all shapes and sizes. They seem a tad superfluous in such large varieties leaving one to wonder, what ...

Some colourful lizards and a mathematical formula from the finance sector have been used to build a new framework to model evolution. Developed by Dr Simone Blomberg from The University of ...

A buddy and I were walking through the Santa Monica Promenade over the weekend after a most horrific dinner at "Bubba Gump's." We were walking past a guy with a slideshow going on and on about "If ...