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… influence in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by … issue of Nature, the study highlights the vast functional diversity of microbes by looking at protein function within …

… growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every direction. There are 100 million … disciplines that relate directly and indirectly to genetic diversity, evolution, wild germplasm utilization and … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

… user engagement. The Science In addition to the core set of "primary metabolites"—chemical compounds shared by most … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence … a secondary metabolites portal within the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system known as …

… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … organized. “The big surprise of the project was to realize that these genome copies that are spread throughout the … in coastal sediments,” said Woyke, who also heads the JGI’s Microbial Program and is one of the article’s senior …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered … new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …

… team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But what trends govern those virus-host … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… early Earth conditions. The Science Through a combination of sequencing tools and techniques applied to samples collected from acidic iron-oxide microbial mats in Yellowstone National Park over time, … phylum-level lineage of archaea with at least two major subgroups dubbed Marsarchaeota. The Impact Iron cycling is …