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… photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for … to identify the microbes. And in order to determine what genes the algae were expressing, the team sequenced their … Yet, what was found here is that there is this invisible partitioning of algal communities.” The team found that the …

… are available. The genome assemblies highlight the multiple advances in sequencing technologies applied to the … genomes’ metabolic pathways could lead to the discovery of genes that could be used for multiple biotechnological … learn the value of their item. Part of that pleasure comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother …

… autonomy; they can be isolated and grown separately from each other. A possible explanation, according to the … clonally. Yet its genome revealed that the alga has all the genes needed for meiosis, and thus can rapidly create … The study’s transcriptomic data also identified many genes potentially important for the symbiosis, including …

… the study’s international team, which included scientists from Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the U.S. Department … — suggest that they are advantageous enough to have evolved multiple times independently. The researchers also found a gene likely responsible for sex determination. Many genes differentiate the shrub willow’s sex chromosomes, so …

… challenges.   Scanning the California oak woodlands from the air, large swaths of the bleached, skeletal remains … was released to the public in a highly-cited 2006 publication in the journal Science . This provided a … them. Despite advances in the years since this landmark publication, SOD continued to sweep through dozens of …