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… with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a … comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother keeping this?” For Stuart McDaniel’s lab at the … ran the gamut of sequencing technologies, from making a bacterial artificial chromosome library to long-read …

For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, … kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what … of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program …

The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk … microbes within metagenome samples and associate their sequences with their roles within their environments. … and was demonstrated using a specific group of marine bacteria called “Vis6” that are found in North Sea algal …

… that discovery, DGRs have been found in other viruses, bacteria, and archaea. But how widely distributed they are, … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene … all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon Roux, who led the research team and is the head …