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Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that … (Berkeley Lab), has generated a more accurate phylogenetic tree tracking the evolution of Dothideomycetes fungi. The …
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A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at … strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing …
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Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic … But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a … As part of efforts to characterize global microbial diversity with an aim to improve predictive ecosystems …
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… to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce … and Saganbacteria that diverged from the bacterial tree before Cyanobacteria and its contemporaries. … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …
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Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg …
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New genomes highlight the diversity of white rot fungi in the genus Lentinula The … the same place they often source their nutrients — the shii tree, a Japanese relative of the oak. These fungi are part … genus Lentinula, which have evolved to decompose hardwoods on every continent besides Europe and Antarctica. A new …
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Program Large-Scale Call, as well as successful submissions to our CSP New Investigator, CSP Functional Genomics, … in a cosmopolitan and abundant soil bacterium: genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during …
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… work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the world’s most harvested crop by tonnage, … High quality primary assembly not only includes a full representation of the diversity present in R570 but shows the genomic effects of …
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… metagenomics studies. The Science Researchers demonstrated the value of conducting large-scale single cell … by collecting nearly 500 single cells from a single low diversity hot spring sediment sample. Their work showed that … of bioinformatics tools for extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, …
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