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David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 collaborators published a paper tracing how these mushrooms have evolved.  …

The JGI is eager to work and share our tools with a widening circle of researchers. That’s why each year we look for novel research projects — aligned … not led any previously-accepted proposals — through the New Investigator call under our Community Science Program . …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus … and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not sure why we systematically manage to miss them; maybe it’s due to … first worked on a reference dataset that included genome sequences known to be affiliated with the Inoviridae. “What …

…   Later this year, Ian Rambo, a graduate student in Brett Baker’s lab at the University of Texas at Austin, … “The purpose of this CSP is to better understand methane cycling in mangrove wetlands in south Texas,” he explained. … also look at how viruses might be influencing the methane cycling within these mangrove wetlands.” A chapter of …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, … Because microbial metabolism affects the biogeochemical cycling of carbon, nitrogen, and other elements, better … National Laboratory, used single-cell sequencing to sequence both a cell’s genome and detect accompanying viral …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is the head …

Kaze, part of the 2018 cohort of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program. Kaze is part of Mark Sistrom’s lab at … on the roles of microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling and the interactions of plants with their associated … Rambo will be studying the influence of viruses on carbon cycling in coastal mangroves. The work complements an …