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UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

… in understanding the genomic basis and ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes … The work by Cavicchioli’s team sheds light on the range of archaeal symbiotic lifestyles found in the Antarctic lakes … native microbes. Metagenomes from enrichment cultures were sequenced and assembled by the JGI. From these assemblies, …

… which microbes in the soil persist after a wildfire — and why they thrive — gives forest managers more avenues to … From those samples, they reconstructed and examined over six hundred bacterial genomes — mainly actinobacteria, as … builds on the pyrophilous fungi the JGI has previously sequenced , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils …

DGRs have been found in other viruses, bacteria, and archaea. But how widely distributed they are, and the roles … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is the head …

… kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what … multiple predictions to reliably match viruses with their archaea and bacteria hosts. The Impact Within the domains of … of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program …

… themselves or eliminate waste. The Impact The bacteria, archaea and other microorganisms of the microbial … 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and archaea. Many of the samples shared a high prevalence of …

… recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach … genomes directly from the environment and focuses on sequence reads to link mobile elements such as plasmids to …