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A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold … to the atmosphere. Peat bogs also serve the ecosystem by minimizing flood risks and filtering water. Peat formed … it was theorized that sex determination was possibly driven by genetics, or even temperature. By sequencing the …

… bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are … that pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in … are abundant in glycoside hydrolases, and are thus better adapted than  Gilliamella  to breaking down hemicellulose. …