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… early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples … chain reaction technology that enables researchers to generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular … and elsewhere provide researchers with insights into the evolution of life on Earth. For decades, longtime JGI …

… teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria and fungi have genes that can break down plant fibers. But are they both … analyzing the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that … dataset was particularly important for characterizing fungal genes, because, unlike bacteria, they often carry …

… Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  … in flowering plants, or angiosperms, suggesting they are evolutionarily conserved across plant lineages. They hypothesized that certain gene families — including fungal genes horizontally transferred — contributed to the …