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… Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of … Science Program (CSP) .  Through this collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a … on microalgal communities across different ocean latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome …

… Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane Metabolism. Methane-producing archaea are estimated to … three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or hydrogenotrophic (most common); … user facility, report the discovery of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform …

… Lab). Using 5,000 images of crystalized samples cloned and synthesized by the JGI, scientists have begun the … of genetic diversity and capable of transferring genes from one host microbe to another, which can have a … domains of life.  Using the IMG suite, JGI retrieved 142 of the GH75 AMGs, which encode enzymes that break down …

… a virologist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, wants to understand how viruses impact the release of greenhouse gases from Arctic permafrost. But to see what they’re doing, he …

… into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting … to date. This paper  is the cover article for the April 2024 issue  of  Nature Plants .  “We wanted to better … as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In this way, encouraging …

… system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with … base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more genome copies from additional parents or duplication, also known as …

… What if we understood plants and how they adapt to their ever-changing environments … and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant tree of life. One project …

… JGI's Simon Roux describes the structure and content of the IMG/VR v3 database (img.jgi.doe.gov/vr), … of IMG database dedicated to viral genomes assembled from metagenomes. He also demonstrates briefly how to … of IMG/VR to browse and search through the more than 2 million viral sequences available in IMG/VR v3. …

… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of … (Berkeley Lab). They were selected through peer review from 41 full proposals out of 50 letters of intent … in the Antarctic Peninsula. Additionally, the proposal from Viola Krukenberg at Montana State University …

… be quietly improving the soil. Penn State researchers Mary Ann Bruns and Terry Bell are digging in to understand how. …

… Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a … a colored-in page of that book. Published online September 28, 2022, in Cell , a team led by researchers at Tel Aviv … data sets of RNA sequences (metatranscriptomes) generated from diverse environmental samples around the world, …

… The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence … threatens this important crop. Hear more about that work from researchers Gary Stacey (University of Missouri), Peter …