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… low diversity hot spring sediment sample. Their work showed that single cell genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing … species recombination, indicating variation in gene flow between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though …

The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The … data repositories of its kind, with an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and enthusiasts to look deep … branches of eukaryotes (organisms with a nucleus). In part because of this evolutionary diversity, algal genomes can be …

The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The … data repositories of its kind, with an interactive browser that allows algal scientists and enthusiasts to look deep … branches of eukaryotes (organisms with a nucleus). In part because of this evolutionary diversity, algal genomes can be …

Dr. Yasuo Yoshikuni has been head of the DNA Synthesis Science Program since 2015. The mission of this program is to harness the power of DNA synthesis, strain engineering, … Library Yields a Previously Unknown Glycoside Phosphorylase That Degrades and Assembles Poly-β-1,3-GlcNAc, Completing …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in … must find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For … score. The result is a genus-level host prediction tool that draws on the strengths of multiple virus-host …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are … honey bee and bumblebee gut microbiomes. Researchers found that pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly …

Meta-omics datasets show that CRISPR-Cas systems determine mutualism or parasitism between some archaeal hosts and their hitchhikers. The … are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After a … and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. … messenger RNA (mRNA) sequencing to identify those traits that have helped fungi, bacteria and viruses survive. With …

… chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in cycling carbon and … the essential trace metal zinc, compared to other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for polar phytoplankton.  After …

A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces … to attract specific catches. A similar technique has been developed by researchers led by Tanja Woyke at the U.S. … are present in any given ecosystem—particularly those that are in low abundances—and their functional roles in …

Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The Science Fields of drooping stalks and cracked earth are becoming common images in many regions due to more extreme … products.  Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench is an African grass that adroitly handles droughts, floods and poor soils. This …

… have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the … a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. “Piloting access to this emerging technology …