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April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re …
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… is that you could, therefore, expect a lot of chemical diversity. So many compounds will fulfill the same function. … compounds, which, in turn, translate into a high chemical diversity. So that’s just the type of relationship between … of an evolutionary process that has led into large chemical diversity because the function relates to the physical, …
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… using advanced sequencing technologies to explore microbial diversity — with an emphasis on bacteria and archaea, and … the largest publicly available collection of Uncultivated Viral Genomes, derived from genomes, metagenomes, and metatranscriptomes, with over 15 million viral genomes and fragments. … GOLD is a web resource for …
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… capture atmospheric carbon, helping to regulate Earth's carbon balance, to exploring the genetic basis of … for key plant species, enhancing our understanding of plant diversity and integrating various data types to explore the … carefully selected by the community to evenly sample the diversity of the plant kingdom and allow ancestral …
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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re … Two special days occur in April: the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. Since both …
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… in cooperation to support a forest, and species vary across Earth’s ecosystems. Recently, in work published in New … and Environment (INRAE). Remarkable Similarity Despite Vast Diversity For this study, researchers collected soil samples … Overall, they found that despite vast species diversity, each guild carried out remarkably similar …
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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. On March …
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… where, among lots of other things, he works on the Tiny Earth project, which you’ll hear him describe. [ Go here to learn more about Tiny Earth and the JGI’s role in the project by watching Amanda … similar to like human crops like corn. There’s low genetic diversity in the crop. So they’re susceptible to disease. …
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… with animal metabolism itself, and it’s really amazing what diversity there is in animals. I think, even despite the … backbones, and so that’s our specialty. That’s where most diversity of life on earth is located. ALISON: Have you been continuing the …
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… have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under … in Nature Biotechnology . Known as the GEM (Genomes from Earth’s Microbiomes) catalog, this work results from a …
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… of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could … uncover these DGRs. DGRs were found in single microbial and viral genomes, as well as genomes sampled all at once from … Roux, who led the research team and is the head of the Viral Genomics group at the JGI, thinks that if you’re a …
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