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… researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use … at the University of California, Davis and UC Santa Barbara generated a list of prokaryotes with fermentative metabolism … phenotype and genotype of fermentative prokaryotes on IMG … Publication … Datasets … Datasets … Datasets …

With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what these viruses can do. Building on existing virus-host prediction approaches, …

The Science Anaerobic fungi, which die in the presence of oxygen, dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched off early from … the fungi expressed biosynthetic gene clusters, which are “building blocks” of natural products. The team then …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … collected. The team noticed some of the genomes diverged evolutionarily from other previously discovered genomes. …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex … some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: …