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Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two … contemporaries Melainabacteria and Sericytochromatia, members of the same clade as Cyanobacteria, applied strategies … (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria and Saganbacteria that diverged from the bacterial tree before Cyanobacteria …

Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying … communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're doing … researchers. Ultimately, the goal is to generate SIP data that can be useful to multiple teams and analyses. This …

Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive … prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with … To better understand the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, researchers recently …

Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base 5mC variations in fungi. … and functions, but the DNA bases themselves can also be modified. The best-known example of a modified DNA base … 5mC is often found in transposable elements or transposons that can move to another location in the genome. Many plant …

Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. … sunlight, carbon and water, to convert them into energy that is then stored. A team led by researchers at the Max … mass produce identical droplets that serve as reaction chambers, and also allows them to test composition variants. …

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… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . … metabolic pathways could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological applications. These …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic … Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are genetic entities that seek to replicate themselves and spread from cell to … common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software …

Cited Papers, defined in the Methodology section as “those that rank in the top 1% by citations for papers published and cited between 2008-2018.” Less than 6,300 Highly Cited science and …

… and determination as they came onsite. From data carpentry to science communications, their schedules were filled with trainings that they later reported were incredibly valuable to their careers going forward. Watch this short video (below) to hear more about the summer from their own …

… with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the norm when it … Ocean shift from phototrophs to archaea when sunlight becomes scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom … a reliance on photosynthesis to maintain nutrient cycling that evolved separately from other similar systems, and …

Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on … partially decomposed matter, and researchers estimate that they hold about 25 percent of the world’s soil carbon. …