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… Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome … heavy metal contamination, and drought. The moss genomes’ metabolic pathways could lead to the discovery of … an answer is in sight for a similar question. In a recent Scientific Advances article , a team led by McDaniel and his …

… Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. … that methanogenesis is one of the oldest metabolisms, with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” … the other five only distantly related to known methanogens. With the help of this information, the researchers found …

… They hypothesized that certain gene families — including fungal genes horizontally transferred — contributed to the … 35 major evolutionary plant lineages in the  Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. … a resource that associates plant’s genetic variants with specific adaptation mechanisms they had identified. For …

… wilder than ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls … through the publicly available  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database, they successfully … explained. “That is definitely material that the scientific community now can use further. Let’s say somebody …

… are handling specific nutrients, or what they're doing with those nutrients, and even how quickly. But there's a … reproducible, more reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

… Repeats) is the leading tool for accurately editing genomes, its effectiveness has historically been limited due … payloads directly into diverse microbes. Combining CRAGE with CRISPR provides researchers with a powerful addition to … CRISPR into other bacteria, thereby enhancing the scientific community’s understanding of how secondary …