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… species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle in the mystery is that viruses … kill outright, replicating so thoroughly that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses … lysogeny, they can insinuate themselves inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host …

… researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal … “Now with these new tools — metatranscriptomics, RNA sequencing of soil RNA — we can access — ‘What are they … functions across different forests. Primary metabolism, cell activity, and fungal development looked quite alike for …

… of RNA molecules transcribed from all the genes within a cell or tissue at a specific time or under specific … Schmutz is the Plant Program Lead at the JGI. Sarah:  Why is a resource like this important to the field of plant … handling 18 different species is beyond the capacity of a single lab. Growing different species poses significant …

… threads in the mix. But in the Petri dish, the thin vermicelli-like threads floating delicately above the leaf debris are revealed to be single bacterial cells, visible to the naked eye. The … appointments at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …