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… behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread …

… for ‘plant’ and planktos for ‘wanderer’). But they vary across the global ocean. Phytoplankton communities in warmer … point to this fundamental observation of cold and warm microbial networks, and just how clear and stark the … combined) contribute to an estimated 50 percent of the world’s fixed carbon, altering the balance of eukaryotic and …

… characteristics. When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they … microbes. The new technique is another tool for microbial ecologists to learn more about the diversity of … To validate the predicted cellulases from their captured genomes, the team then used DNA synthesis and cloning, …

Program in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team … 01 to F. Martin), JGI Community sequencing program project (CSP570, DE-AC02-05CH11231), and National Science Foundation …

… on Earth, peatlands store approximately one-third of the world’s soil carbon. The process to harvest … more carbon than all other vegetation types in the world combined. Harvesting peat for energy has been … HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, …