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Congratulations to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel … for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … dark matter”–that uncultured and unknown majority of microbes in, on and around the planet–through techniques …

A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids … elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change. …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine … The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … but these symbiotic interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and … hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes … and high latitude ecosystems, deciphering their internal molecular mechanisms can help researchers better model …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … which particularly helps plants thrive in warm, arid environments. Corn and sugarcane are among the major … and domesticate crops.” How shattering occurs varies widely between crops, Kellogg added, and shattering genes may be …