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… evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently …
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An Enzyme System to Help Catalyze Bioproduction of Plastic
… system, researchers could open avenues for using bacteria to produce ethylene and more.  Microbes excel at recycling … stinky air is a rich source of the sulfur they need to grow and divide. Similar to the bacterial enzymes that fix nitrogen — nitrogenases — other …
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Detection of short-term cropping system-induced changes to soil bacterial communities differs among four molecular characterization methods
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Improved Draft Genome Sequence of Microbacterium sp. Strain LKL04, a Bacterial Endophyte Associated with Switchgrass Plants
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Ice cover extent drives phytoplankton and bacterial community structure in a large north‐temperate lake: implications for a warming climate
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Coral mucus rapidly induces chemokinesis and genome-wide transcriptional shifts toward early pathogenesis in a bacterial coral pathogen
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Proposal of Patescibacterium danicum gen. Nov., sp. nov. in the ubiquitous ultrasmall bacterial phylum Patescibacteriota phyl. Nov
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Codon bias, nucleotide selection, and genome size predict in situ bacterial growth rate and transcription in rewetted soil
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Amplicon sequencing of ice and water phytoplankton and bacterial communities during an extreme winter in a central Canadian great lake
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Here, There and Everywhere: Large and Giant Viruses Abound Globally
… of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority not harmful to humans could be even larger. Viruses infect bacteria, … and they range in particle and genome size from small, to large and even giant. The genomes of giant viruses are on … “Klosneuviruses.” Previously known members of the viral lineages in the NCLDV group infect mainly protists and …
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Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacterial and Archaeal Type Strains, Phase III: the genomes of soil and plant-associated and newly described type strains
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In depth metagenomic analysis in contrasting oil wells reveals syntrophic bacterial and archaeal associations for oil biodegradation in petroleum reservoirs
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