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… yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut microbiota … Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey bee and bumblebee gut … is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may …

… fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a … relationships outside of the root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing … species. The 62 mycorrhizal species include 29 newly-sequenced mycorrhizal genomes. With so many fungal  genomes …

… that infect organisms much smaller than humans, like bacteria, this power is not surprising at all.  In fact, … For example, viruses which infect the photosynthetic cyanobacteria found throughout the planet’s oceans can exert … hydrothermal vents – and computationally identifying which sequences represent viruses that were present in the sample. …

… our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … different Swiss Army knives — explaining a bit more about why and how nitrogen metabolism is so robust and varied.  …

… change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the … to archaea when sunlight becomes scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned … that in winter months, when sunlight is nonexistent, the bacteria are replaced by carbon-fixing archaea. Although Ace …

… = 91 days; Actual Operation = 24 days due to significant sequencer downtime related to the shelter-in-place. ††† … data.   FY05-07 Sequencing Goals and Results Fiscal Year Sequence (GB) Operating Hours Targets Actual* Targets Actual …