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… Across four forests, researchers have leveraged data from the 1000 … registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … as the climate warms. However, these are complicated interactions to untangle. Fungi work in cooperation to …

… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the freshwater … assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …

… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … 2019 in Nature Communications , two research teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for …

… National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) is a network of field research sites designed to collect long-term open … Through the  “Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science” (FICUS) call between the JGI and the  Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) , …

… Science Program (CSP), researchers are developing a number of resources to build up Sphagnum as a plant model system focused on carbon cycling studies, rather than for food or fuel applications. The Impact Sphagnum’s impact … as “an unparalleled model system for ecological and evolutionary genomics .” Understanding the nature and …

… Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and … Images of giant miscanthus often appear in discussions of rapidly growing plants whose biomass can be renewably … models, Miscanthus has a large and complex genome whose evolutionary history and perennial lifecycle makes it …