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… host species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a single host? Another wrinkle in the mystery is that … virus was only 11 times more abundant than its host. There just don’t seem to be huge lytic infections happening in …

… are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses.  New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and illuminates the … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their … sex. They are also the smallest sex chromosomes ever identified in the plant kingdom. Specifically, researchers found …

Sorghum stands out as a candidate feedstock for biofuels thanks to its drought and flood hardiness. Even with … To support growing sorghum and other C4 plants for biofuel production, John Mullet (Texas A & M and Great Lakes … ) and the grass Brachypodium distachyon ( 2017 ), have identified many more genes than found in the single reference …

… at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The … described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon their gene content and … is poised to become an essential tool for researching global viral diversity. geNomad has already been downloaded …

… the crust, there is a vast ecosystem connected to the global carbon cycle. Archaea are key players in this deep … Frontiers Group, the National Science Foundation (MCB-1244557 to J.A.D.) and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s Sustainable Systems Scientific Focus Area funded by the US Department of Energy …