{"id":179958,"date":"2024-01-06T06:25:08","date_gmt":"2024-01-06T12:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/horizontal-gene-transfer-facilitates-the-molecular-reverse-evolution-of-antibiotic-sensitivity-in-experimental-populations-of-h-pylori"},"modified":"2024-01-06T06:25:08","modified_gmt":"2024-01-06T12:25:08","slug":"horizontal-gene-transfer-facilitates-the-molecular-reverse-evolution-of-antibiotic-sensitivity-in-experimental-populations-of-h-pylori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/horizontal-gene-transfer-facilitates-the-molecular-reverse-evolution-of-antibiotic-sensitivity-in-experimental-populations-of-h-pylori","title":{"rendered":"Horizontal gene transfer facilitates the molecular reverse-evolution of antibiotic sensitivity in experimental populations of H. pylori"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/horizontal-gene-transfer-facilitates-the-molecular-reverse-evolution-of-antibiotic-sensitivity-in-experimental-populations-of-h-pylori2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The authors evolved antibiotic-resistant <i>Helicobacter pylori<\/i> in the absence of antibiotics and presence of DNA from antibiotic-sensitive strains. Horizontal gene transfer mediated the molecular reverse evolution of the antibiotic-resistance gene to the antibiotic-sensitive allele, and the authors used theoretical modelling to determine the evolutionary conditions that promote reverse evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The authors evolved antibiotic-resistant Helicobacter pylori in the absence of antibiotics and presence of DNA from antibiotic-sensitive strains. Horizontal gene transfer mediated the molecular reverse evolution of the antibiotic-resistance gene to the antibiotic-sensitive allele, and the authors used theoretical modelling to determine the evolutionary conditions that promote reverse evolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,385],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-evolution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}