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Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent … Colorado State University researchers led a consortium to study river microbiomes. To understand the microbiology of … Northwest National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced over 1,000 metagenomes and established standardized sequencing …

… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … much less those considered large and giant. In a recent study  published in the journal  Nature , a team led by … Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly available metagenome datasets generated from sampling sites around the …

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… has closed.  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is offering a five-day workshop on Microbial … Genomics and Metagenomics. Details: mgm.jgi.doe.gov   This highly hands-on workshop is designed to familiarize …

… complexity At first glance, the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with … described the morphological and genomic features of this giant filamentous bacterium, along with its life cycle. … at the Université des Antilles and a co-first author on the study, performed the 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify …

… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate … nitrogen, a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to … able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) …

David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how …