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… forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … Resource (IMG/VR) , now with more than 15 million viral genomes. It was also key to developing the first version of …

…   The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) is a national user facility located at … JGI consists of around 280 researchers and support staff in the Integrative Genomics Building in Berkeley, …

… land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four  Zygnematophyceae algae, which were isolated …

… cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers employed multiple … microbiology and ‘omics techniques to experimentally determine that Nanohaloarchaeota are symbionts, rather than … consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and …