Search

… bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce their own food … (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria and Saganbacteria that diverged from the bacterial tree before Cyanobacteria … and Schulz sharing co-first authorship. Their data suggests that the shared common ancestor of all five bacterial …

… membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene …

… in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable … that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Viruses are everywhere — in soil, the sea and, of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds …

… machine “learned” to identify a certain type of bacterial viruses or phages called inoviruses, which are filamentous … and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not sure why we systematically manage to miss them; maybe it’s due to … first worked on a reference dataset that included genome sequences known to be affiliated with the Inoviridae. “What …

Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion … set out to Yellowstone National Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. …

… a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

… processes, making it difficult to propose projects that truly integrated the capabilities of more than one …