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… Olpidium attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … to the terrestrial ecosystems exposed fungi to numerous new ecological niches and triggered rapid diversification of …

… The course had a defined set of objectives, and started with an image of a spoonful of dirt with the question: Do you want to find out what is in this … and organic carbon concentration. From Field Studies to Publication Together as a class, the students learned about …

… to convert food into energy. However, in environments with little or no oxygen, life had found other ways to … form of metabolism, researchers recently compiled a list of with more than 8,300 organisms from multiple sources, … metabolism from the literature. They then used the JGI’s GOLD and IMG data portals to get information about the …

… Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida … “When I originally envisioned the project of the class, I knew that I wanted them to write a final paper that  could be …

… that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 years — with many key colonization events in the Atlantic ocean … able to spread quickly and establish itself in a variety of new environments.  This all started roughly 250,000 years … doubling all of its chromosomes.  Over time, the new and old chromosome copies begin to diverge and mutate relative …

… features prominently among the eleven proposals selected with four focused on biofuels and bioproducts. For example, … that may be relevant to both algae and land plants.  Within the biogeochemistry group, one of the four proposals … by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Science (TES) program within the DOE Office of Biological and Environmental …

… into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of the Earth’s carbon as well as material that can … to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and … plants don’t fully decompose in peatlands, and so carbon within their tissues doesn’t return to the atmosphere. Peat …

… Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria … evolved separately from other similar systems, and offers new clues into a unique environment in the natural world. … The Impact From the polar regions to the deep ocean, cold environments occupy more space on Earth than any other …

… strains. (Blake Rasor) Think of cells as tiny factories: within their walls they have both the machinery to make … University describe a two-pronged approach that starts with engineered yeast cells but then moves out of the cell … done alone,” Jewett said. “To paraphrase a quote from an old movie, ‘This is the start of a beautiful …

… a job site for a task that requires a flathead screwdriver with a full toolbox including Phillips and specialty … to mention Allen wrenches. The fungi are similarly armed with a variety of PCWDEs to first break down the components … metabolized in filamentous fungi. The work also suggests a new approach to gene annotation, which then can be explored …

… that will enable scientists to explore and collect data in new ways,” she said. “We’re excited to be able to offer this … multi-terabyte datasets assembled for the first time with  MetaHipMer , taking advantage of scalable parallel …

… Microbiome Data Collaborative (NMDC). Prospective users with questions on how to partner with the Metagenome Science Program on their research are encouraged to schedule time with Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh . Click to schedule  … EA, et al. 2016. Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal springs. Nature …