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In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at … a condition known as polyploidy. The multiple copies arise from past genome duplication, which occurs in two basic … In “autopolyploids”, genome duplication occurs within a single species. By contrast, “allopolyploids” arise when …

Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , … researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the …

… entities that seek to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … EDGE platform. The Impact In order to gain more insights into Earth’s ecosystems, researchers must examine …