Natasha Dudek

TL;DR: New genomic data from over 1,000 uncultivated and little known organisms, together with published sequences, are used to infer a dramatically expanded version of the tree of life, with Bacteria, Archaea and Eukarya included.

TL;DR: A genome-resolved metagenomic approach is employed to recover and characterize genomes and functional potential from microbes in the oral gingival sulcus of two bottlenose dolphins, uncovering a rich diversity of predicted Cas9 proteins, including the two longest predictedCas9 proteins to date.

TL;DR: This paper describes the strategy to safely and effectively deploy a small marine robot to inspect a reef using its digital cameras, and demonstrates the feasibility of such a system for practical use for the preservation of this crucial ecological resource.

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors characterized the oral (gingival) and distal gut (rectal and fecal) microbiota of 158 wild southern sea otters living off the coast of central California, USA, and 12 captive Sea Otters, some of which were included in a diet shift experiment.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the automated analysis of coral in shallow reef environments up to 90 ft deep using texture and color features combined with classifiers for two vision sub-tasks, namely image classification and semantic segmentation.