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Database provides details on river microbes in 90% of US continental watersheds. The Science In … resource that provides information at multiple scales from genes to the community level. The Impact Rivers are … sampling locations. Metatranscriptomic information was also generated. The 3.8 trillion bases or Terabases of sequencing …

… that produces those. So it’s not a hard and fast rule, but, generally, animals do not have secondary metabolism that we really recognize, right?  ALISON: And I tend to think of microbes as being able to secrete a lot more things than … It’s an evolution of primary metabolism. So a lot of the genes and the DNA that’s used for secondary metabolism, they …

Fine-tuning metabolic gene expression helps identify variants in yeast genes. The Science Scientists have developed a more nuanced library approach to tuning gene expression in metabolic pathways. Compared to the …

… and actually get to the DNA sequence – sequences for the genes that code for the proteins that produce secondary … developed to the point that you could understand the genetics of secondary metabolism, it became possible to do … what those molecules actually are, and then what their function might be. Whether that’s in nature, or whether …

… gas: methane. Those emissions mainly come from gut microbes — the bacteria and archaea breaking down plant …

ALISON TAKEMURA: I know that it’s looking in the genome for genetic elements of interest, you know, something like … want to explain that to someone who doesn’t know much about genetics or anything else, science wise maybe, what genome … for people, but also those molecules that mediate a well functioning ecosystem and environment and earth. So yeah, …

… bioprospecting vs biopiracy, early stage drug discovery in general, and a possible data-driven future for plant natural … whether it’s for plants to make clothing, or musical instruments, or food, or medicine, which was really where my … that morning cup of coffee, that is a plant that has a functional activity. It’s a pharmacological agent that acts …

… communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with … And that led me to get even more interested in how general environmental stressors, um, alter microbial biomass … off. And that’s in a single lifetime, right? Or maybe two generations. And so, you know, and the real question is, can …

When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including their photosynthetic partner, that help …