Teasing Out the Microbiome of the Kansas Prairie
Friday, July 29, 2016 - 02:01
in Biology & Nature
PNNL scientists have untangled a soil metagenome - all the genetic material recovered from a sample of soil - more fully than ever before, reconstructing portions of the genomes of 129 species of microbes. While it's only a tiny proportion of the species in the sample, it's a leap forward for scientists who have had only a fraction of that success to date.