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… screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they tested the screen … they uncovered a novel cellulose-degrading bacterium typically found in low abundances. The Impact Microbes are known … this microbe. The work is an example of how function-driven genomics, which Woyke and her colleagues define as “any form …

… one of the two main branches of fungi); another is a photosynthetic microbe, tucked in the fungus’ tissue. If … with the photobiont transferring part of its photosynthetically fixed carbon to the mycobiont. However, despite a … in the lichen lifestyle. The team’s results appear in  BMC Genomics . To explore the genomes, Armaleo and colleagues …