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… ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep … researchers described how the viruses repeatedly attempted to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  … These archaea fix carbon and nitrogen, but the viruses that infect Altiarchaea cause the cells to burst. This …

As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. The cold polar oceans give rise to some of the largest food webs on Earth. And at their base … dominated by prokaryotes could replace those of eukaryotes much more easily than previously suspected. “That would …

Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 … and short-chain alkane-oxidizing archaea. They used IMG because the database already contains metagenome datasets … as well as tools for analysis. “There is evidence that methanogenesis is one of the oldest metabolisms, with …

… the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and … for researchers to study the planet’s microbial diversity, much of which remains unknown and uncultured in …

Bacterial enzymes play second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with … division of labor between the two groups. Fungi are much more active in degrading plant matter, and bacteria are …

… decades, advancements in sequencing technologies have led to an abundance of microbial genomes becoming available to the global research community.  … over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal genomes to see how much of their diversity we've actually captured,” said …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers …

Tracing gene regulatory networks in the model fungus  Neurospora crassa . The … A team led by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley used a multi-omics approach to reconstruct and … a wide array of plant cell-wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs) that allow them to efficiently break down the wide array of …

Large-scale comparative analysis leads to identification of biosynthetic gene clusters for novel … for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory … pretty remarkable.” Adding Value Beyond Genome Sequences Much of the data had been generated from environmental …

… user facilities—the  Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have … four focused on biofuels and bioproducts. For example, Sabeeha Merchant of the University of California, Berkeley … gene families to photosynthesis and discover gene functions that may be relevant to both algae and land plants.  Within …

A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, … first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most species are hermaphrodites, expressing … strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the first time, the sex …

… components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a plant for energy: … of hardy cell walls. It’s the cellulose and hemicellulose that eventually yield fuels, and removing lignin in order to … into  biofuels and bioproducts. If anaerobic fungi could be used to effectively modify lignin without oxygen and make …