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Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a … Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … Facility, for publicly available metagenome data provided by the other study co-authors, and reconstructed from these …

… cell (seen here in a glass capillary), researchers sequenced and assembled the first complete genome of an … lineages from a variety of environments. In 2017, the first New Lineages of Life (NeLLi) workshop was held, inviting the … and validation of the functional potential of these new lineages. …

… of the National Academy of Sciences bridges this gap, by tracing the evolution of a specific enzyme family called … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … different Swiss Army knives — explaining a bit more about why and how nitrogen metabolism is so robust and varied.  …

… as a biofuel. To this end, a team of researchers led by Jeremy Schmutz of the JGI and the HudsonAlpha Institute … of the JGI; and Scott Jackson of the University of Georgia sequenced and analyzed the genome of the common bean. That … farmers and a commercial crop for large producers. The team sequenced and assembled a 473-million basepair genome of the …

… that pollen’s pectin and hemicellulose are degraded mainly by just two clades:  Gilliamella,  which mostly resides in … — are digested further along: first, the pectin, mainly by  Gilliamella ; then the hemicellulose, mainly by  … is a division of labor by these bacterial groups. But why the strain variability? The authors think the reason may …