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… for every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Ying Chang in the Spatafora lab describes … weakly. Further investigation on the source of controversy revealed that the branches among Olpidium and the first few … known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments.     …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … his team tracked the thousands of bacterial and archaeal species using a DNA-based array developed at Berkeley Lab. … also helped track and characterize the shifting waves of microbial communities involved in removing different …

… it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers … Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered … new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense … down my spine; if CRISPR was present in so many different species, there was a good chance that nature was using it to …

… metabolites for multiple applications. Despite advances in sequencing technologies and computational methods in the … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be … dataset, Nayfach clustered the MAGs into 18,000 candidate species groups, 70% of which were novel compared over …

… between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not anyone registers the sound — … lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that … fungal metatranscriptome yet,” said Igor Grigoriev, Fungal Genomics Program Head at the JGI.  Along with an improved …

… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. The Science Researchers have developed a genomic … fuels for cars and jets. By studying a close relative model species like P. hallii , researchers can develop crop … The work conducted by the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, …