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… Using a novel computational approach, researchers confirm microbial diversity is wilder than ever. Imagine researchers … what falls within that single beam. When it comes to microbial communities, scientists have historically been … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach …

… New evidence shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main … cellulose and hemicellulose is well-established: Across all life forms and with little exception, organisms have figured … to slowly break down lignin (think of a fallen, decomposing tree in the forest). Because oxygen is essential to how …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of the … have been characterized from eucalypts, a group of 900 tree species belonging to the Myrtaceae (myrtle) family and … production perspective. By using genomic database alignment tools, researchers searched for TPS genes in C. citriodora . …

… Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of approved proposals highlight biodiversity and how … State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially … diversity within the eucalypts, a group of fast-growing tree species that are widely grown as feedstocks for …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements … advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic tools have helped decode the genomes of tens of thousands of … of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, …

… As SIP experiments shed more light on microbial communities than ever before — especially with the prospect of meta-analyses boosted by AI and Machine Learning — JGI … opened vast windows into specific activities catalyzed by microbial communities. By pairing RNA or DNA sequencing with …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic … from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in name first …

… . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … multiple models and their close relatives across the fungal tree of life, enriching the work being done as part of the 1000 … We acknowledge the use of deletion strains generated by Grant P01 GM-068087 …