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… Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold … array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. At these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  … Laboratory, contributed metagenomic sequencing to the study as well as  genome analysis, providing authors a more …

… Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation cycle. The Science Chloroplasts … serve as reaction chambers, and also allows them to test composition variants. Summary In the  May 8, 2020 issue of  … can be further explored for novel functions. In the current study, the team combined the CETCH cycle with a …

… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to … order to do so is a resource-intensive process. Now, a new study shows how anaerobic fungi — the kind living in the … their funding sources: Office of Biological and Environmental Research of the U.S. Department of Energy grant …

… hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they … but these symbiotic interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these … the microorganisms had a close relationship. Then, using metagenomes and metatranscriptomes generated by the U.S. …

… never heard of trifoliate orange. Otherwise known as  Poncirus trifoliata , it’s an evolutionary cousin of the  … JGI collaborator, are senior authors of the  recent study published in  The Plant Journal.  this study included the discovery of candidate genes that confer …

… But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a duck? For a … The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant metabolic … cells that are transformed into virocells, and how the outcomes of these infections can affect the interactions within …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been important in early Earth conditions. The … mats at Yellowstone offer researchers an analog for studying early Earth conditions. Additionally, … Through the JGI’s Community Science Program , the team used metagenome assemblies, transcriptomes and single amplified …

… opportunities in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer … Quantitative and Systems Biology Mentor: Guohong Wu, Plant Comparative Analysis What effect has your summer internship … in industry or academia. It was also a great opportunity to study and learn something totally new during my Ph.D. What …

… Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary … (Berkeley Lab), to fill in these gaps of knowledge. In a study published November 11, 2022, in Cell Genomics , the … with nearly 5,000 publicly available ones and 1,100 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) reconstructed from …

… cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve …

… tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. … Finally, using transcriptomics, researchers were able to study which of the trees were turned on or off in response … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). All of this information — 318 metagenomes, 98 plant transcriptomes and 314 metabolomic …