Expanding fungal diversity, one cell at a time

(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Reported Oct. 8, 2018, in Nature Microbiology, a team led by researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has developed a pipeline to generate genomes from single cells of uncultivated fungi. The approach was tested on several uncultivated fungal species representing early diverging fungi, the earliest evolutionary branches in the fungal genealogy that provide a repertoire of important and valuable gene products.

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/dbnl-efd100418.php

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - October 8, 2018 Category: Biology Source Type: news