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This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In the last two episodes, we’ve …
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… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … temperatures characteristic for polar oceans. In this study, they’ve cracked open the genome of another polar … latitudes from pole to pole, using metatranscriptome and metagenome data from the JGI. With multiple threads of …
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… number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help … plant biomass. Here, cud-chewers like goats, sheep and cows share an important talent. In their herbivorous lives, … processing. “So if you peer inside a poop sample, or a rumen sample, you’re going to find beautiful diversity.” …
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Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking … nitrogen, a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to … able to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) …
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… polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic … algae. But human-induced climate change , a new study suggests, is displacing these important cold-water … of East Anglia (UEA, UK) and senior author of the study. “Prokaryotes are not capable of producing all the …
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Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … to harvest all the energy they can. The results in the study were enabled by a number of in vitro and in vivo … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US …
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