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… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … in nearly all types of anaerobic environments suggest the diversity of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” … , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained by the U.S. …

… — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, … or life-saving drugs. A better understanding of its genetic complexities will illuminate the evolutionary … is passed along to offspring supplying it with raw genetic materials and increased genome complexity, made …

Jan. 12 workshop: The Rapidly Expanding Genomics of Algae   With advances in genomics technologies, keen interest in the bioenergy and biotechnology potential of algae, and sampling of the length and breadth of algal diversity, the numbers of sequenced algal genomes, and the …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, … … This work was supported by the NSF Dimensions of Biodiversity Program (DEB-1542509 to S.D., DEB-1542486 to LBS, …

April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … to living on a changing planet. Mo Kaze is a University of California (UC), Merced graduate student working with  … Canal System,” focuses on anthropogenic impacts on wetland microbiome composition and metabolism, work on which she is …

By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, researchers have new insights … cycle carbon in changing conditions. The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and … intricate connections, and many, many moving parts. A lot of these moving parts are proteins — amino acid structures …

After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their … Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, Nature Reviews Genetics, ISME J, Nucleic Acids Research, DOE Small Business … 376:1453 Schulz et al. 2022. Giant virus biology and diversity in the era of genome-resolved metagenomics. Nature …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … of a novel archaeum from a hot spring that has the genetic machinery to perform hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis … study first author Bojk Berghuis. “This provided us with genetic evidence to tie together the evolutionary history of …

… . The Science A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to … N. crassa is the model organism for filamentous fungi, all of which contain a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading … Fungus” and that are publicly available at the Fungal Genetics Stock Center. This work was supported by an Energy …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … a way for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which remains unknown and uncultured in … community to discuss how to move from cataloging microbial diversity to experimental characterization and validation of …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the … bacterial clades shared between honey bee and bumblebee gut microbiomes. Researchers found that pollen’s pectin and …

… less than previously believed.  The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in … a timeline like this, researchers would normally craft a genetic clock based on its divergence with a  different … 502951, 2016, Population and evolutionary genomics of host–microbiome interactions in Zostera marina and other …