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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 … (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute ( https://ror.org/04xm1d337 ), a DOE …

… A fungus relies on bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better understand how beneficial … , is recognized as a mutualist, where both species of organism benefit from association, but was predicted to … the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health. The work conducted by the U.S. Department of …

… This single environmental trigger highlights efficiency for users … chemical factories. They hold genetic blueprints for dozens of complex compounds, but stay largely dormant under standard conditions. As described in a recent issue of mSystems , scientists found that adding salt to the …

… Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for … 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 …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … (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 …

… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for the 34 …

… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi … 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) …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and … di-GMP (Guanine Monophosphate) is found in nearly all types of bacteria and interacts with cell signaling networks that … role in regulating microbial cellulose production and biofilm formation, which affects a number of environments, …

… Uncovering associations between plant roots and fungi that can help … host health. The Science Researchers compared the genomes of fungi that colonize Arabidopsis thaliana roots with … of the key community participants and enabling future metagenomics studies.   …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how burned ecosystems return to health, researchers have …

… Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants … 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 … This work was funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under Award No. …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are … With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic …