Search

… diversity and capable of transferring genes from one host microbe to another, which can have a significant impact … of fungi and the exoskeleton of insects. It is one of the most commonly found carbon biopolymers in nature, second only …

… how the interactions between viruses and their host microbes impact the regulation of global nutrient … that can be compared across studies, (ii) predicting which hosts these viruses are likely to infect, and (iii) … , an integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and …

… determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The Science Within the archaeal … fill in their nutrient gaps, they must latch onto a larger host — often, a fellow archaeal microbe. Understanding how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their …

… Science . The following guest piece was written by Call, a postdoctoral fellow in the JGI Microbiome Data Science Group … authors provide a brief history of the field, describe the most commonly used methods, and discuss some of the current … the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, …

… in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, expressing both male and …

… rust pustules develop as the pathogen feeds on its soybean host, which is maintained alive. Once a crop is infected, ASR … to sequence — roughly 1.25 billion Gb (gigabasepairs — most fungi are around 50 million Mb, or megabases, in size). …

… assistance of microscope. “It’s 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a … filamentous bacterium, along with its life cycle. For most bacteria, their DNA floats freely within the cytoplasm … bacteria when he returned to the Gros lab as a postdoctoral fellow. When he applied to the discovery-based …

… Dr. Schulz is leading a DTRA-funded program on agnostic pathogen detection and surveillance in complex samples. … 499-509. Schulz et al. (2020) Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics. Nature. 578 …

… Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus Carnevali was working with … Click here to read the “Behind the Paper” blog post by Paula Matheus Carnevali. … the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, …

… , where she talks about this community resource. ) “Most people study actinomycetes because they produce a very … the United States, and is working to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time. For more information, …

… more productive food, medicine, and bioenergy crops. But most available genomes are from narrow swaths of the plant …