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… the world, resulting in a five-fold increase of RNA virus diversity. “The world of viruses around us is vast, and we … While most organism’s genetic information is encoded in DNA, with RNA delivering the instructions inside DNA to the … RNA,” Roux noted, “although it’s unclear why this is so rarely detected.” Developing Approaches for Reconciling …

… genes are encoded on a single molecule of mRNA – in two species of green algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and … zofingiensis . “I was scrutinizing the genes of one of our species of algae and kept seeing what looked like mistakes …

… cells into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was applied to a recent Nature … in soil for the first time. A second approach known as DNA stable isotope probing (DNA SIP) relies on incubating … nature. In the last few years, mapping the planet’s viral diversity has advanced drastically, aided by genome assembly …

… Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an allodiploid hybrid of two species, similar to a mule, but that is still able to … oil production. The organism uses specific chemical tags on DNA  to control which genes are active. Researchers also …

… lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that … and Environment (INRAE). Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples … who nominated species for sequencing and then sent DNA and RNA samples to JGI,” Grigoriev said. All of these …