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… yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota … Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey bee and bumblebee gut … is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may …

… genomic biodiversity. Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, their … still unknown.  “We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their … group. “Turns out that despite all the genomes we've sequenced, we've only scratched the surface.” The study, …

… AMGs in soil viruses thought to break down chitin, the gene sequences were cloned by the JGI.  The JGI’s DNA synthesis … in archaea, fungi or bacteria. Certain similarities with bacterial counterparts suggest the viral versions of the … and AMGs. It could spawn future research into understanding why these AMGs exist in the first place, and what function …

… led by researchers at the Max Planck Institute (MPI) for Marine Microbiology has developed, tested and deployed a … The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk … microbes within metagenome samples and associate their sequences with their roles within their environments. …