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… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in the evolution and transition of fungi from aquatic to … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of …

… Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … important to understand early life, but also to link the evolution of this metabolism to geochemical data, which in …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … and nitrogen. This research team combined computational and experimental approaches to look at how this enzyme family …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … in flowering plants, or angiosperms, suggesting they are evolutionarily conserved across plant lineages. They … horizontally transferred — contributed to the ecological resistance of plants to the Earth’s ever-changing harsh …

… By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights into how these ocean photosynthesizers cycle carbon in … A kaleidoscope of structure-function data To study DRI experimentally, Blaby-Haas, Grosjean and their team used a …

… in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global … wake-up call to revive the art of hands-on microbiology and experimental validation.  Microbes run the world, playing … “While computationally derived MAGs have been a revolutionary tool for microbiology, it's a call to balance,” …