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A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can be converted to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes …

… get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … five oceanic regions. In doing so, they found a high degree of variability in the types of microorganisms that inhabit … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, contributed metagenomic sequencing to the study as well as  genome analysis, …

… (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a … to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The … DNA sequencing can help scientist to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … a more systematic picture through single-cell and metagenomic sequencing. A team co-led by Mária Džunková, … virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a … begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … helped fungi, bacteria and viruses survive. With this metagenomic analysis, it was possible to identify specific …

The Science Researchers have successfully automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial … with results published in the  November 2022 issue of Microbiome . High-throughput stable isotope probing (SIP) … and improve results. Applying this method to the study of a particular fungi, researchers identified novel …

… to expression, scientists can now opt for various shades of grey. The ability to fine-tune the level of gene expression allowed researchers to identify variations of essential genes in metabolic networks that were missed …

… hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of … as terrestrial soil, having additional isolates and metagenomic datasets will strengthen future virus-host …

PCE (perchloroethylene) found its way into the groundwater of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a … bioremediate toxic substances has led to the development of cost-effective environmental cleanup strategies. Summary … Program , they were able to analyze the resulting metagenomic data. (Data from the project are available on the  …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The … some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: …

… analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is a striking division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active …

… well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly simple: place these algae in a container … dioxide so they can grow, and then harvest for use as biofuels and other bioproducts. As any good cook knows, …