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… between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not anyone registers the sound — … soil. These fungi help shape a forest’s ecology. They store carbon and cycle key nutrients like nitrogen and … suggesting these guilds share the responsibility of recycling fungal dead material. The Reference Genomes that …

… The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science … are important organisms. They play key roles in global carbon cycling, are sources of natural products, and have potential …

… (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. … a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those ecosystems work. …

… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a … Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a saprophyte, living off decaying organic … This work was supported by the Plant-Microbe Interfaces program at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory …

… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (https://ror.org/04xm1d337), and the …

… is Professor Cassandra Quave from Emory University, with joint appointments in the School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences. … Dr. Cassandra Quave, from Emory University’s School of Medicine and College of Arts and Sciences in Atlanta. She is a plant natural product chemist with a …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their … their research of these newly found methanogens  in diverse ecosystems with  support from a DOE Established Program to …

… Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) provide access to a variety of tools that leverage stable isotopes to measure carbon and nutrient flux, and identify microbes assimilating … just because there are fewer nitrogen atoms than there are carbon atoms in DNA. So you need to get a little bit more …

… Congratulations to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was … viral diversity, understand the role of viruses in natural ecosystems, and functionally explore viral genetic …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … genomes . The Impact The microbes that play key roles in cycling nutrients such as carbon, nitrogen and sulfur are themselves regulated by … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science …