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… isolating individual bacterial cells and amplifying their genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these … stages of the arbuscular mycorrhizal symbiosis. Nature Plants 10, 673–688 Vyshenska et al. 2023. A standardized … Bendall, M.L. et al. 2016. Genome-wide selective sweeps and gene-specific sweeps in natural bacterial populations. ISME …

Then, using metagenomes and metatranscriptomes generated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint … genomes, they found a huge variety of CRISPR-Cas systems. Generally, prokaryotes use CRISPR-Cas systems to recognize … systems, the CRISPR-Cas9 system, is a powerful tool in gene editing, but many other systems exist. Investigating …

… novel pathways assimilating unique sugar polymers in macroalgae and developing the first microbial platform … University of Washington … Shen et al., Mitochondrial ATP generation is more proteome efficient than glycolysis., … characterization of a soil viral auxiliary metabolic gene product - a functional chitosanase., Nature …

… that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could mutate the … but also surprisingly active. In viruses, DGRs appear to generate diversity quickly, allowing these viruses to target … on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene might boost an organism’s fitness. Moreover, the …