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New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science Shiitake mushrooms get their name from … relative of the oak. These fungi are part of the genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every …

… yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their … work and how healthy they are, a recent data set  outlined in  Scientific Data connects molecular features to large …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers … tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave event in the ocean known as “The Blob.” The event was recorded …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A … and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass  Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome sequence …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific Subtropical Gyre, microbes tend …

Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A … and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass Miscanthus sinensis has been published. Analysis of the genome sequence …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than free-living organisms as had been originally thought. The Impact The …

Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters and clouds of insects hover just above. Described as a “river of grass” …

… genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme … were subjected to one of three conditions during their lifecycles. In the pre-flowering drought condition, no water was …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be spotted with …

… warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the … their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water communities of algae with …