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New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric … environments without oxygen through a process called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a … is not limited to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to …

… and the microalga,  Asterochloris glomerata . To see how gene expression changes when living together versus apart, … of the results were unexpected. For example, lichenologists generally anticipated that in this symbiosis going back hundreds of millions of years, accidental gene swaps via horizontal gene transfer would have occurred …

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

… their growth program, and on how plants coordinate their gene expression with light and temperature oscillations … Dr. Cole’s research focus has been on understanding how microbes can colonize plant roots, focusing on genetic components required for effective colonization. In …

Lab). Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they … bacterium typically found in low abundances. The Impact Microbes are known to be key contributors to the planet’s … Support for this research was also provided by the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, U.S. Department of Energy, …

… single-cell and spatial transcriptomics barcode-based genetics (RB-TnSeq), and computational genomics to better … strains, whereby they can modulate host metabolism, gene expression and phenotype. We have recently identified … simiae WCS417. One suggested function of these phage genes is the modulation of their bacterial host to colonize …