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… DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … through the stories I told you about geosmin, which is a bacterial sacred metabolite, and ergot alkaloids come from … so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. You know, we have this …

… leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel secondary metabolites for multiple applications. … 11, 2022, in Cell Genomics , the team focused on Actinobacteria ( Actinomycetota ), a group of bacteria with … resource, but also yielding and supporting many high-impact publications ,” emphasized Markus Göker, who managed the …

… gene families involved in adaptations seen in later plant lineages. The team found that some of the adaptation … to spread across most of the plant’s ecosystems. The Impact For decades, the liverwort  M. polymorpha has been used as a model for evolutionary studies. Its place among early-diverging plant lineages makes it ideal for …

… Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi … down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … on the other hand, appear to be ignoring these difficult potential foodstuffs. The team’s findings also illustrate …

… critical ecosystem functions and affect global nutrient cycling, however they do so under strong constraints exerted by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective … While an ever-increasing number of phage and virus genomes have been …

… protein. Researchers demonstrated the efficacy and potential of regulon identification by in vitro … particularly sigma factors that initiate transcription in bacteria. Using this technology, which combines an in vitro … regulation is critical to ensuring genes vital for growth and survival across various environments are …