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… his team tracked the thousands of bacterial and archaeal species using a DNA-based array developed at Berkeley Lab. … expertise led to the identification of a new “oil-seeking” species related to Oceanospirillales , work that also …

… Impact By collecting and sequencing dominant haloarchaeal sequences from six hypersaline lakes, researchers focused on … pool of genetic material comprised by all members of a species, the pan-genome of haloarchaea contains the parts of … are found across all six lakes, suggesting that these species are endemic to Antarctica and distinct from other …

… to have two high quality reference genomes for peat-forming species that occupy different microhabitats – Sphagnum … draft metagenome-assembled genomes for seven novel species of Acidobacteria through an approved CSP proposal. The researchers found that these species encode a sulfate reduction pathway, but also have …

… is widespread and cosmopolitan: more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to … nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …

… than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem … After isolating the algal communities on filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the … organisms in these food webs, said Schmidt. Several whale species, including gray whales and humpbacks, migrate to …