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Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 Fungal Genomes project to form new connections between fungal … RNA to understand gene expression, and developed new tools to map that soil RNA to fungal genomes.  The U.S. …

… consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and cultivated microbes, … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate …

… archaea and eukaryotes, and they range in particle and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes of giant … viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. The expansion of the diversity for large and giant viruses offered the researchers insights …

… model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s impact … can also act as a protective layer insulating permafrost from the warming regional temperatures. For this reason, the … researchers are aiming to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different …

… in various shades of white. To researchers searching for sequences of RNA viruses in large data sets, their work … Information, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Advances in sequencing technologies and computational tools have uncovered a diversity of viruses that infect not …

… relevant to living on a changing planet. Transcript for Audio   ALISON:  Hey! I’m Alison Takemura at the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, or JGI.  Two special days occur in April: … changing planet. In this short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the …