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… time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. … Their partnership is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are … work was supported by an intramural seed grant (IGSP 2008001) to DA, FL, and FD from the Duke Institute of Genomic …

… first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial … the virus had been infecting the cell. The team assembled 130 genomes from their sample — a small proportion of the … and archaeal cells — and detected the virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then …

… the location of genes that provide resistance to the brown rust disease that can devastate a crop. The Impact In … partly enabled by the JGI’s Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane …

… genomics can add significant value to the other commonly used culture-independent sequencing approaches including … In these springs, temperatures can reach as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this … User Facility, is supported under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was supported in part by a Natural …

Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, found that the fungus Olpidium is a link in … to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic …

… (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility,  reported on just how morel fruiting is … from an external source.  The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic … assimilated carbon into the soil, reducing the amount of CO2 emissions from decaying leaves and woods into the …

Microscale Applications group. Before joining the JGI in 2010, he made the first ever measurements of in situ growth … the ocean. Later during his postdoctoral work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology he developed a high …

… a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using surprisingly few enzymes. The Science Maize ( Zea mays … zealexins. Even though scientists have identified at least 15 zealexins, they suspect there are even more to find. … Institute Community Science Program (JGI-CSP) grant (CSP2568 to P.Z., ES and AH), and by a fellowships provided by …

… off early from aerobic fungi, which can breathe oxygen — just like we do. Oxygen is a rich source of energy, and … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department …

… insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years … archaea. They used IMG because the database already contains metagenome datasets from a variety of …

Machine learning approach significantly expands inovirus diversity. To answer the question, “Where’s Waldo?” … Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature Microbiology , a team led by scientists at …

… researchers to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team  announced in  … is central to our ability to offer host-engineering for our users,” says JGI Director Nigel Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI … application could scale,” says Mouncey. The JGI team has already demonstrated CRAGE as a versatile engineering system …