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… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … to identify proteins, the team compiled DNA sequences (metagenomes) and messenger RNA sequences (transcriptomes) from …
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… — an energetically expensive feat thought to be too costly for them. The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … natural products, O’Malley and her team plan to use genetic tools to boost production and isolate the compounds. …
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… A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led … and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in generating … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, is …
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