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… case, the machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called inoviruses, which are … and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not sure why we systematically manage to miss them; maybe it’s due to … first worked on a reference dataset that included genome sequences known to be affiliated with the Inoviridae. “What …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … 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 …

… the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. … first time, the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their … (DOE). (Poplar is a Flagship Plant.) To engineer them, researchers need to select and breed cultivars for the next …

Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even … looking at how communities of these microalgae interact, researchers have found that polar algae rely on dissolved zinc … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom …

Proposals aim to sequence and annotate genomes from Antarctica to Africa to … Science Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … interested in better characterizing the role endosymbiotic bacteria play on mating habits of Mucoromycota fungi, and …