Harada et al. describe an archaeon, recovered from a single marine plankton cell, whose 238-kb genome is the smallest known for the domain. It has lost nearly all metabolism but keeps the machinery to...

Communications Biology - DNA-based monitoring uncovers contrasting salinity-driven diversity patterns of bacterial and protist plankton in the Baltic Sea area

Communications Biology - DNA-based monitoring uncovers contrasting salinity-driven diversity patterns of bacterial and protist plankton in the Baltic Sea area

Environmental genomics has focused mainly on prokaryotes, leaving microbial eukaryote diversity poorly understood. Using ~20,000 mitochondrial genomes from 3,400 lake metagenomes worldwide, this study...

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Adaptation in protein-coding sequences can be detected from multiple sequence alignments across species or alternatively by leveraging polymorphism...

This study shows that the degradation of microbial storage polyhydroxyalkanoates is not just restricted to microorganisms by finding that some animals also have the enzymes required to break down thes...

Largest study of its kind finds that neighbourhoods with a rise in the number of undocumented migrants did not show a rise in violent crime rates.

Reassignment of stop codons is a significant evolutionary event with recoding of UGA to tryptophan being previously identified in only three bacterial phyla, the Bacillota, Pseudomonadota and Verrucom...

Microbial DNA profiles from seawater can act as biosensors of environmental conditions and ecosystem status, demonstrating the potential of metabarcoding and machine learning in marine monitoring and ...

Microbial DNA profiles from seawater can act as biosensors of environmental conditions and ecosystem status, demonstrating the potential of metabarcoding and machine learning in marine monitoring and ...