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… Spatafora and Jason Stajich from UC Riverside would focus on broad sampling of early diverging fungi, and Francis … National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRAE) focused on in-depth exploration of ecology-related groups of … genomes in progress and 200 that are pending samples from users. Roughly 300 have been published. Spatafora said the …

… are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep subsurface. They are abundant … ecosystems. A team of researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host … ground. These archaea fix carbon and nitrogen, but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the cells to burst. This …

… work — have quickly accelerated understanding of giant viruses. The Science In the last thirty years, in environments … over the world, scientists have discovered giants among viruses. Now categorized in their own phylum,  Nucleocytoviricota , these giant viruses boast larger genomes than many bacteria. Until …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … The team then compared this dataset against nearly 80 previously published fungal genomes on the JGI data portal … therefore predicted that these root-colonizing fungi must be kept in check by the host and other microbes not to …

… Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the … The team found that some of the adaptation strategies used by liverwort are also seen in flowering plants, or … of plants to the Earth’s ever-changing harsh habitats, thus allowing them to spread across most of the plant’s …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, …

… different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … surface, to the blue-lit twilight zone, to the continuous pressure of the dark abyss, 4000 m (2.5 miles) deep. … the metabolisms that SAR324 and other microbes use could inform scientists’ understanding of carbon fluxes …

… lineages. The Science From the distinct smell of eucalyptus to the flavor of wine, terpenes are ubiquitous. A diverse group of plant-produced organic compounds, … interactions. Terpenes are also economically important because of their use in industrial materials, pharmaceutical …

… from left: [Above] Hao Chen, Matthew Cope-Arguello, Theophilus Olufemi Isimikalu, Todd H. Oakley, BJ Philmus and Aaron M. Roshotte; [Below] Paul Scesa, Kathleen … Tapping into these functions allows researchers to use them for engineering applications in support of …

… wide — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize … Intern: Brendan Blasius (undergraduate) Mentor: Guohong "Albert" Wu Click the … Intern: Jasper Toscani Field (graduate) Mentor: Brian Bushnell Click the image to watch the video …

… Using the IMG/M data portal, researchers have identified a virus protein tied to carbon cycling.  The Science Through a … effort, researchers have identified a protein in soil viruses that may promote soil health. The work was enabled in … Research (BER) and is a contribution of the Scientific Focus Area “Phenotypic response of the soil microbiome to …

… .) This plan aligns the DOE Office of Science user facility with broader national efforts to promote and … of biological systems. The JGI strategic plan lays out how users and the global research community will bridge … solutions, the JGI is well-positioned to provide users with capabilities to create genomics-enabled insights …