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New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced … Alternate Metabolic Pathways And there is something special about these new lineages recently tied to methanogenesis. …
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… those microbial methane-makers. Eventually, that could help us dial back their emissions, while still producing things … collaborators Sinead Leahy (New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre) and Bill Kelly (AgResearch). …
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The Science The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means using proteins … acknowledge support from the EMERGE Institute (NSF #2022070). Sequencing of the Stordalen Mire samples used …
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… of the National Academy of Sciences . The team focused on the dominant bacterial clades shared between honey … pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades: Gilliamella, which mostly resides in the bee’s ileum, a structure analogous to the human small intestine; and Bifidobacterium, …
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… (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 participants in an online workshop to … workshop, Volkan Sevim, a computational biologist at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), … that low sequence identity may belie. The technology he’s using is magical; transform any length of amino acid …
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… messenger RNA, which encodes a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous examples of polycistronic expression – in which two or … (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Berkeley Lab and the Environmental …
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… boggy wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary … their role as carbon sources. Summary Sphagnum, a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry …
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… at one of the DOE national laboratories or national user facilities. As a result of the latest call , a total of … UC Merced School of Natural Sciences. “I’m deeply concerned about climate change and this is a remarkable opportunity to … how engineered environments contribute to greenhouse gases,” Kaze said. “It’s an exciting time in the field …
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