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Mining Metagenomes for Cas Proteins
… Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility. The sequences were then biochemically characterized by a team … to foreign genetic elements by incorporating short sequences from infecting viruses and phages. In the event of … the microbes use the genetic information encoded in CRISPR sequences to target the virus and release attack enzymes in …
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Applying Viral Genomics Expertise to Understanding the Human Virome
… collection of UViGs by identifying contiguous viral sequences (“contigs”) from thousands of ecologically diverse …
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Making a Lichen Together
… nitrocellulose filters in Petri dishes. The scientists also sequenced the fungus and photobiont’s genomes and compared …
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Lipid analysis of CO2-rich subsurface aquifers suggests an autotrophy-based deep biosphere with lysolipids enriched in CPR bacteria
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Community ecology across bacteria, archaea and microbial eukaryotes in the sediment and seawater of coastal Puerto Nuevo, Baja California
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Systematic Identification of Gene Families for Use as “Markers” for Phylogenetic and Phylogeny-Driven Ecological Studies of Bacteria and Archaea and Their Major Subgroups
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Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach
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Horizontal gene transfer of the Mer operon is associated with large effects on the transcriptome and increased tolerance to mercury in nitrogen-fixing bacteria
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A Genomic Perspective Across Earth’s Microbiomes Reveals That Genome Size in Archaea and Bacteria Is Linked to Ecosystem Type and Trophic Strategy
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Supercharging SIP in the Fungal Hyphosphere
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Designer DNA: JGI Helps Users Blaze New Biosynthetic Pathways
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Host population diversity as a driver of viral infection cycle in wild populations of green sulfur bacteria with long standing virus-host interactions
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