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Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In a recent Nature paper , researchers describe a dataset of microbial genomes sampled from rivers covering 90% of the watersheds in the …

… tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are … photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for … the global ocean. Instead, they sharply delineated into two big geographical groups: those in colder, polar waters, …

… and analysis will be paid for by the Department of Energy’s funding of the JGI. There is no cost to the user and no granting of … Letters of Intent and must use a variety of capabilities at two or more user facilities. Proposals must be preceded by …

… online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach … through the publicly available  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database, they successfully … vast array of microbial dark matter. The study took roughly two years to complete, with only about 20,000 metagenomes …

The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … — which smells terrible —they were able to isolate four strains: Anaeromyces robustus , Caecomyces churrovis , …