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… of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for the first time, that this group is unexpectedly powerful: they … a chemical engineer at the University of California (UC), Santa Barbara, collected the droppings of a sheep and a goat … finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring … of Tel Aviv University, one of the project co-leads and first author of the study. Members of the Tel Aviv and NCBI … sequence data, was absolutely critical for the success of this effort and so was the acknowledgement of their …

… flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon than all other … the hummocks or the more water-logged hollows below. These preferences affect their growth rates, decomposition, and … Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team …

… of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can … first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their … of sex determination could also lead to new approaches to accelerate flowering, which can speed the pace of breeding. …

… and Asaf Salamov were part of a team that presented the first large analysis of an Aspergillus fungal subgroup, … Nature Genetics, the work is part of a long-term project to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of more than 300 … Institute for Biotechnology that worked on an updated reference genome for Theobroma cacao, the tree that produces …

P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The Science The Arctic microalga … dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and 24 hours. By the 24-hour mark, these algae showed … Discovery program grants to C.L. Support from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund to Sentinelle Nord is …

… a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to discover what … So, to be able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences … and metatranscriptome sequences, as well as individual reference fungal genome sequences assembled as part of its …

… has developed, tested and deployed a pipeline to first target cells from communities of uncultivated … The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk … probe and was able to amplify the Vis6 group, which accounted for less than one percent of the sequences from a …

… approach to isolate cellulose-degrading microbes. They first bound single microbes to fluorescently labeled … tested the approach on bacterial laboratory models to set a reference for its performance, and then applied it to environmental samples from the Great Boiling Spring Geothermal Field in …