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… (Graphic: Neil Byers) The JGI launched the 1000 Fungal Genomes (1KFG) Project through a 2012 Community Science … State University led the effort to sequence 1000 fungal genomes to create two reference genomes for all fungi families — essentially, the foundation …

… that support open data practices, development of standards and processes for data quality and sharing, and …

… processes. A third approach steps away from reconstructing genomes directly from the environment and focuses on … cell fitness. As the vast majority of viruses remain uncultivated, Roux outlines what’s been achieved thus far … has advanced drastically, aided by genome assembly from metagenomes. This is a critical step toward better understanding …

… Understanding the evolution of polyploidy, and how genomes respond to extra chromosome and gene copies, will … Miscanthus breeding programs. The team also sequenced genomes of numerous wild Miscanthus lineages to better …

… For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better … lichens. Studying the symbiosis by investigating a lichen’s genomes and transcriptomes could help inform efforts at … The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared them to close relatives who don’t …

… single-cell methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One … in Nature , applied single-cell sequencing to decode genomes of bacteria and archaea from previously understudied …

… of countering multiple attempts at virus infections. Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR … cells. This demonstration of the virus-host arms race in uncultivated yet abundant subsurface organisms was  recently … used to search for and find 13 additional predicted viral  genomes . The team dubbed these viruses Altivir, finding …

… their gene expression, the team then sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, metatranscriptomes), as well as the genomes of single cells of the uncultivated SAR324. The constellation of data gave the team …

… of webinars featuring aspects of the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) Nikos Kyrpides was part of an … foster discussion on how to best capture and characterize uncultivated viruses, understand the role of viruses in …

… lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader … lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing major fungal families, including those for which there were previously no genomes of symbiotic species available: 73 saprotrophs and …