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The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene …

A workflow for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental … The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences for members of the microbial world through bulk community sequencing …

Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea … get any sunlight, and yet they still support a unique array of microorganisms adapted to living in extreme conditions. … these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers studied microbial communities across five oceanic regions. In doing …

A tall native plant of the North American prairie, switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) has long been a tantalizing potential biofuel feedstock. But switchgrass has a complex genome and, as a species, encompasses dizzying diversity. So, a team of scientists made an ambitious plan …

… began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered … new technologies, and made a few discoveries about the microbial mat denizens.  …

Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) that consists of coordinated hands-on experiments across fungal biology … and distribution of fungal genome datasets. It includes JGI-sequenced and publicly available datasets encompassing a … to biological inference and understanding of fungal diversity, ecology, and potential applications. … The …

… registers the sound — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) sequenced 1 trillion bases — a terabase — of soil RNA for … and Environment (INRAE). Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples …