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… hermaphrodites, expressing both male and female gametes in one individual. But some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … through the  Community Science Program , using long-read sequencing to assemble the repetitive areas of the complete …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At … are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost plant-microbe …

… have been able to look into soybean’s strengths – along with a fungus that threatens this important crop. Hear …

… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. …

… single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s population, the number of viruses in the same drop—the vast majority … and how those interactions may in turn impact the host communities and their roles in carbon and other nutrient … available but also complementary single-cell sorting and sequencing of viruses together with their unicellular …

… ecology and metagenomics. Her current research focuses on leveraging thousands of metagenomic datasets from host-associated and environmental samples to identify and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining … ( magna cum laude ) PhD, Marine Biology, Scripps Institution of Oceanography …

… Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance … with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the …