Bog fungi hide in plain sight: litter, roots and wood dwarf peat’s hidden riches
Metabarcoding of peat, litter, wood and mycorrhizal roots in a Siberian raised bog reveals roughly 11,500 fungal species hypotheses, with ...
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Hidden Amazon: Massive eDNA Dataset Reveals 69,881 Soil Species Across French Guiana
A new environmental DNA dataset catalogs nearly 70,000 soil species across forests, savannas, pastures, and urban areas in French Guiana, ...
CoMeDA Brings Compositional Rigor and Batch Correction to Microbiome Analysis
A new open-source web platform called CoMeDA unifies compositional data analysis and automated batch effect correction for metabarcoding studies, from ...
DNA Marker Choice Skews Fungal Maps of Europe’s Saltiest Lagoon Sediments
A study of Spain's hypersaline Chiprana lagoon reveals that the choice between ITS1 and ITS2 DNA markers shapes fungal diversity ...
Fungal DNA Barcoding: How You Slice the ITS Region Outweighs the ASV-versus-OTU Debate
A new simulation-based study finds that extracting the fungal ITS region from sequencing reads matters far more for accurate community ...
Tsetse flies in Mozambique reveal hidden web of parasites, hosts and microbes
A molecular survey of tsetse flies in Mozambique's national parks and farm buffer zones reveals seven trypanosome species, 17 blood ...
DNA Sequencing Reveals Hidden Worm Coinfections in Kenyan Cattle Grazing Beside Wildlife
Deep-amplicon sequencing of faecal and larval samples uncovered eight gastrointestinal nematode species and frequent coinfections in cattle at a Kenyan ...
Inside the Cellular Storm: Single-Cell Map Reveals How Coral Bleaching Really Unfolds
A single-cell transcriptomic study of the coral Orbicella faveolata reveals cell-type-specific and microbiome-wide dynamics that drive the breakdown of the ...
Salt Marsh Microbes Hold Steady Through Day-Night Swings, Venice Lagoon Study Finds
A study of two Venice Lagoon salt marshes shows that sediment microbial communities remain taxonomically stable across a full summer ...
Cat Owners and DNA Metabarcoding Reveal What Pet Cats Really Eat
A pilot study from UC Davis used DNA metabarcoding of owner-collected cat scats to reveal that owned cats rarely consume ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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