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… cells as virocells, a change in name first described in 2011 which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. … the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any given time. … bacterium with two unrelated viruses: siphovirus PSA-HS2 and podovirus PSA-HP1. Each virus demonstrated a different …

… look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every … All of these cotton lineages have genomes approximately 2.3 billion bases or Gigabases (Gb) in size, and are hybrids … the simplest cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders …

… biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant … to date. This paper  is the cover article for the April 2024 issue  of  Nature Plants .  “We wanted to better …

CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial … active secondary metabolites and helping them identify and describe the functions of the biosynthetic gene … in overcoming this obstacle when it hit the scene in 2019. Now, that power is poised to grow exponentially by …

… dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. … proposal. The next step for the team was to try to identify what natural products the fungi were making. So, Trent …

In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint … Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly identify polyploid subgenomes without needing to know the genomes … it’s hard to analyze. The ancestors are a bit hard to identify and there’s a small possibility that something could be …

… funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 and DBI-2047598 to K.A. We thank the Department of Energy Joint …

… more than once, and these events took place a million years apart: the individual with a maternal  B. distachyon parent (D plastotype) some 1.4 million years ago (Mya), while the S plastotype was a more recent … anticipated with only minor gene loss even after a million years.” Reference genomes for  B. distachyon ,  B. stacei …

… a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to … big the room is.  A new study  published online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional … but we knew the families,” Kyrpides said. Yet, “almost 20 years of metagenomic data and metagenomic analysis, and …