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… of tough plants. Thanks to gut microbes — namely, anaerobic fungi — these animals are able to pry apart plant polymers … use to bust biomass apart. She and her team find these fungi, and their enzymes, primarily in animal poop.  “As an … diversity.”  Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, O’Malley and her team are amassing all kinds of …

… Dr. Baumgart joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2018, following his doctoral research in synthetic biology … wide range of JGI user science projects spanning bacteria, fungi, and plants. His team is also developing single-nuclei … Jeff, Leo Alexander Baumgart, Scott Cookson, Michael Ferry, Garrett Graham, Ramon Huerta, Ryan Johnson, and Lev …

… the tool to correlate protein annotations with ratios of DNA sequence fragments from the ecosystems. Selecting a … results in seeing their predicted functional and metabolic roles across global metagenomes (within IMG).  The Impact … Those similarities, based on their ratios of small DNA sequence fragments called tetranucleotides, are a way to …