Building on existing virus-host prediction approaches, researchers have created a new program called iPHoP. It combines and evaluates multiple predictions to reliably match viruses with their archaea and bacteria hosts. [Read More]

Applying this method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel interactions between bacteria and the fungi. [Read More]

Microbial communities around hydrothermal vents survive in very hot, high-pressure and chemically-rich ecosystems. They hold clues for understanding how life thrives in extreme environments. [Read More]

Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses. [Read More]

A new study offers the first irrefutable proof that anaerobic fungi — the kind living in the stomachs of livestock — can deconstruct lignin in the absence of oxygen. [Read More]

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula. [Read More]