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… JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to support scientists …

… interested in better characterizing the role endosymbiotic bacteria play on mating habits of Mucoromycota fungi, and … have beneficial symbiotic relationships with plants and bacteria; in many instances, fungal physiology is impacted by these bacteria during mating processes. Kathryn Bushley of the …

… impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, scientists can shed light on hidden components, … distinct from similar proteins found in archaea, fungi or bacteria. Certain similarities with bacterial counterparts suggest the viral versions of the …

… Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant matter. So since …

… on using comparative genomics to predict gene function in bacteria and leveraging molecular biology and reverse … heme-binding split-barrel family. J Biol Chem  300(11), 107888. Grosjean N, Yee EF, Kumaran D, Chopra K, Abernathy M, … site ties heme availability to carbon metabolism in cyanobacteria. Nature Comm 15:3167. Hammack AT, Blaby-Haas CE. …

… use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called inoviruses, which are … approach detected inoviruses in 3,609 (6 percent) of the 56,868 microbial genomes and 2,249 of the 6,412 (35 percent) …

… first closed and finished genome derived from an uncultured bacterial single cell – a symbiont of the green … populations in oxygen minimum zones identified SAR11 bacteria as initiators of nitrogen loss in these waters. The … of the tree of life. Used in tandem over the years, metagenomics and single cell genomics have afforded JGI users …

… awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes contribution of … techniques including single-cell genomics and metagenomics. They cited her “landmark” 2013 Nature paper , …

… called fermentation. To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, … researchers recently compiled a list of with more than 8,300 organisms from multiple sources, including the U.S. … also used the tool to predict possible functions from 733 metagenome-assembled rumen genomes. Finally, they used the …