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… agriculture, and other industries — yet there’s still so much about them we don’t know.  Unlocking the power of secondary metabolites … that quickly kill the host. Understanding exactly how P. luminescens and its secondary metabolites work could …

… — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In … on their gut microbiota to produce these enzymes to break down polysaccharides. But scientists have wondered exactly how the microbial community carries out its helpful …

… dynamic metabolite networks of environmental microbes and how they transform their environment. Research Team    … For …

… in warmer waters, including the tropics, tend to be dominated by prokaryotes (microorganisms without a defined nucleus). Colder waters nearer the poles, however, tend to favor eukaryotes ( microorganisms with a … dominated by prokaryotes could replace those of eukaryotes much more easily than previously suspected. “That would …

… facilities.  … Through its partnership with NERSC and the DOE Energy Sciences Network (ESNet), the JGI has unique … access and analyze data on scales ranging from single genes and individual genomes to metagenomes to systems-level … modeling and understanding. JGI and KBase are designated DOE Office of Science Public Reusable Research (PuRe) Data …

… secondary metabolites are produced by groups of genes known as biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs.) As … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence … specific features or tools. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science …

… decades, Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) has opened vast windows into specific activities catalyzed by microbial … mode’, where they do very little.  SIP experiments can show which species actively munch on a specific chemical … this to untangle which microbes ate the compound and how much they ate.  These analyses provide granular insight into …