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… is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to … was generally thought to develop clonally. Yet its genome revealed that the alga has all the genes needed for meiosis, … from the Duke Institute of Genomic Sciences and Policy (for DNA sequencing and assembly); by a three-year subcontract to …

They chose this location because much is unknown about the diversity of organisms (taxonomy) and particularly those in … routes had been taken. Sifting through 16 Trillion Bases of DNA Taking into consideration some complicated environmental … from 4 sites with 5 replicates. They extracted the DNA from the soil with Qiagen DNeasy PowerSoil Kits and sent …

… that are still vital to facilitate the assembly of small DNA fragments into larger and coherent pieces called contigs — … switchgrass, researchers isolated and sequenced DNA from rumen microbes involved in the digestion process.  …

… focused around developing foundational knowledge of viral diversity and virus-host interactions in microbial systems. … … Neri et al., 2023. Expansion of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell 185, … 39, 578-585. Roux et al., 2019. Cryptic inoviruses revealed as pervasive in bacteria and archaea across Earth’s …

It features over 15 million viral genomes and fragments, enriched with functional annotation, taxonomic …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) Metagenomics pipeline  that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial … Volland et al. 2022.   A centimeter-long bacterium with DNA contained in metabolically active, membrane-bound … Nature Comm 10(1) 1-10 Schulz, F. et al. 2018. Hidden diversity of soil giant viruses. Nature Comm . 9 (1), 4881 …