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… to decode millions of mystery genes and lay a future-ready foundation     Over the past billion years, fungi have … Earth's fungal kingdom. The manuscript reviews about 200 publications linking evolutionary history and innovations … of the paper, called it “a call to action for many communities” including educational partners, citizen …

… Adriana Corales, Hugh Cross, Megan DeMarche, Joanne Emerson, Matthew Hudson, Megan Keller and Julia Kelliher; [below] Vassili … Tesfaye Mengiste, Egbert Schwartz, Hannah Schulman, Bram Stone and Jana Voriskovaa The JGI is excited to announce the …

… may be only 10 times larger. And yet, while they are found everywhere, comparatively little is known about … and how those interactions may in turn impact the host communities and their roles in carbon and other nutrient … noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly …

… Genome annotations of two C. citriodora subspecies broaden understanding of … . From these samples, a total of 127 TPS loci were found, many of which had high sequence similarity to TPS genes from other plants. Researchers … by FAPDF grant “Nextree” 193.000.570/2009. For the portion of the work conducted by the Joint Genome Institute and …

… To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … organisms tend to evolve multiple copies of enzymes, similar to including half a dozen slightly different … misplacement.  In studying this family of ATs, researchers found that these enzymes have evolved distinctly from both …

… regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, … lab will continue their research of these newly found methanogens  in diverse ecosystems with  support from …

… Newly developed chemiluminescent biosensors shed light on how bacteria function and colonize diverse environments. … The Science Cyclic di-GMP (Guanine Monophosphate) is found in nearly all types of bacteria and interacts with … functions. It plays an important role in regulating microbial cellulose production and biofilm formation, which …