Publications by authors named "Eleanor Furness"
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- * Genomic research on Arctic microbes is urgently needed in four areas: the changing Arctic Ocean, greenhouse gas emissions from thawing permafrost, biological darkening of glaciers, and human impacts.
- * Major challenges exist in Arctic microbial genomics, including insufficient data and lack of insights into low-biomass communities, highlighting the need for innovative approaches to study these vital organisms.
Despite widespread use in human biology, genome-wide association studies (GWAS) of bacteria are few and have, to date, focused primarily on pathogens. Myxobacteria are predatory microbes with large patchwork genomes, with individual strains secreting unique cocktails of predatory proteins and metabolites. We investigated whether a GWAS strategy could be applied to myxobacteria to identify genes associated with predation.
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