The ability to assemble genomes from metagenomic sequencing avoids the need for culture and any associated culture biases. We assembled 24 essentially complete draft genomes from metagenomic pair-end and size-selected mate pair sequencing from 4 stool samples, 2 from subjects diagnosed with colorectal cancer and 2 from healthy controls.

The rice planthoppers, Nilaparvata lugens, Sogatella furcifera, and Laodelphax striatellus, harbor intracellular yeast-like symbiotes (YLS) in the fat body. The YLS are obligated endosymbiotes and are transovarially inherited. Nucleotide sequences of the 18S rRNA genes from the YLS were analyzed by direct sequencing. The YLS of the three species of planthoppers were monophyletic and their taxon...

Wooded meadows are seminatural plant communities that support high diversity of various taxa. Due to changes in land use, wooded meadows have severely declined during the last century. The dominant trees in wooded meadows acquire mineral nutrients via ectomycorrhizal fungi. Using anatomotyping and sequencing of root tips, interpolation and extrapolation methods, we studied the diversity and com...

Analysis of mitochondrial DNA in forensic samples is routinely carried out by direct sequencing of hypervariable regions within the non-coding displacement loop. Although the accuracy and sensitivity of this method cannot be questioned, it is both time-consuming and labor intensive. Finding a way to rapidly pre-screen forensic samples-prior to sequencing, to reduce the number of samples that ne...

A streamlined version of direct dideoxy sequencing is presented that includes template preparation as well as sequencing protocols. The method is used routinely to sequence double-stranded PCR products after minimal purification with one of the primers used in amplification. Either 35S or 32P labeling can be used with equally good results.