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… . Research shows that flagella were lost in other forms of  Chloroflexota that adapted to marine environments … understanding of how these bacteria evolved could help inform engineering microorganisms for biofuel production and other sustainable applications. …

… living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are … and chemically-rich ecosystems. This means they hold clues for understanding how life thrives in extreme environments. … (Community Science Program award 339, lead Peter Girguis) for sequencing several of the samples. …

Gutierrez Huerta and Bryan Rangel Alvarez, both California Alliance for Minority Participation (CAMP) students at UC Merced. … Symposium , held February 6 at the University of California, Irvine, Cristhian and Bryan were among 5 UC Merced …

Research yields a comprehensive tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar … molecular features to large ecosystem-level processes for the first time. By collecting data from 27 different … The Impact Dubbed “the” bioenergy tree, poplars are known for their genetic diversity. They hold economic value as …

Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial … it in the deep ocean. With genomic samples collected before, during and after The Blob, researchers developed a … water about a third the size of the United States began forming in Alaska. Over the next two years it slowly spread, …

… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … carries out its helpful metabolism: who’s responsible for what biochemical processes? Now, an international team … Bifidobacterium  are able to carry out this metabolic feat. For both clades, then, strains are variable in their …

… fresh organic carbon which can serve as a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. R. R. Tolkien’s “The Lord of the Rings,” the Hornburg fortress had withstood all attacks – until the Battle of … Their genomes include short DNA sequences that code for CRISPR systems, which help bacteria resist foreign …

… regulation is critical to ensuring genes vital for growth and survival across various environments are … While characterizing sigma factors is the most straightforward application of the technology, in principle, … there is only one type of RNA polymerase responsible for each gene. These bacterial RNA polymerases are made up …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … the National Microbiome Data Collaborative’s EDGE platform. The Impact In order to gain more insights into Earth’s … that combines and builds on two standard techniques for identifying viruses and plasmids. Until now, most other …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a … that colonizes Brock and gives him super strength. For lichen, the partnership is more commonplace — though … research, many of the symbiosis’ details remain unclear. For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the …

… in graphical processing unit (GPU)-based high-performance computing resources, an upcoming hackathon led by … JGI hackathon is particularly focused on developing bioinformatics applications instead of on simulation codes. “JGI … has a strong reputation in the community,” said JGI Chief Informatics Officer Kjiersten Fagnan of the upcoming event. …