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… in understanding the genomic basis and ecological consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples … analyses. The species harbors genes encoding SPEARE proteins—which contain  s erine  p roteas e ,  a dhesion …

… Kasey Markel and Patrick Shih (UC Berkeley and the Joint BioEnergy Institute) are looking for new ways to engineer … into wasps that program oak trees to raise their young in structures called galls.  In this episode, hear from Kasey …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key …

… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an … that these expressed genes translated into expected proteins. That work was done in collaboration with the … analyses) to break up the compounds and to puzzle out their structures. Their results indicate that anaerobic fungi …