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… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can … to become an essential tool for researching global viral diversity. geNomad has already been downloaded thousands of …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan …

New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula   The Science … still roamed central Asia. Afterward, Lentinula groups evolved further, to four major groups: a lineage in …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing … for selectively enriching low abundance microbial groups from complex natural communities. This type of …

… to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter … the world, resulting in a five-fold increase of RNA virus diversity. “The world of viruses around us is vast, and we … not appear to be evenly distributed around the world. One expanded group is of viruses associated with bacteria; until …