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… from spring to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities living in extreme … a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic and hot spring … counterparts could have the ability to manipulate plant growth. Across the phylum, diverse Chloroflexota show the …
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Below is a brief description of the process needed to prepare and ship samples for sequencing by the JGI. … follow the steps outlined below. Click the drop-downs to learn more about each step in the process. If you have … . … 1) Review JGI sample QC requirements and protocols Obtaining DNA and RNA of suitable quantity and …
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… user facilities—the Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have … gene functions that may be relevant to both algae and land plants. Within the biogeochemistry group, one of the four … scientific community toward a predictive understanding of complex biological and environmental systems to enable …
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… bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex polysaccharides. Honey bees are invaluable pollinators — cupids of the plant world facilitating the remixing of genes in the next … can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees rely on their gut …
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… focuses on using genome-resolved metagenomic approaches to identify and characterize genomic information from … microbes and viruses. We develop computational approaches to sift through thousands of metagenomes for signatures of … Microbiology , 15032. 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2015.32 … Selected Publications … For further details, please reach out to the …
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… microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities living in …
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Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years … believed. The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading … when and how eelgrass adapted and evolved throughout its history. Their research, published in August 2023 in Nature …
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… and DNA Day on April 25. As both Earth and DNA are close to our JGI hearts, we’re highlighting genomic science … we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. I … Community Science Project proposal with JGI, in which she’s studying a special kind of plant metabolism. This …
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… collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity …
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… metabolites," chemical compounds that often confer specialized capabilities that allow the organisms to adapt … more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of publication, it is the largest repository of BGC sequence … BGC sequences. Expansion of the SMC to include fungal, plant, viral, and metagenome data is currently underway. … …
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