First Plasmid Found in Halovibrio Reveals a Mosaic Genome Forged by

First Plasmid Found in Halovibrio Reveals a Mosaic Genome Forged by

Deep beneath the surface of eastern Slovakia, in the hypersaline brines of the historic salt deposits at Solivar near Prešov, microbes have been quietly trading genetic blueprints for millennia. A team of researchers led by Zuzana Lorková Kellnerová and Jana Kisková of Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, working with collaborators in Spain and at the Slovak Academy of Sciences, has now pulled one of those blueprints into the light. In a st…