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Horizontal gene transfer and gene dosage drives adaptation to wood colonization in a tree pathogen
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Enhanced nutrient uptake is sufficient to drive emergent cross-feeding between bacteria in a synthetic community
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Pyrophosphate-free glycolysis in Clostridium thermocellum increases both thermodynamic driving force and ethanol titers
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Reactive iron, not fungal community, drives organic carbon oxidation potential in floodplain soils
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Nitrogen and phosphorous acquisition strategies drive coexistence patterns among archaeal lineages in soil
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JGI Earth Month: Wetlands Work in #TenHundredWords
April marks both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … Kaze took on the challenge of explaining her research using the ten hundred most commonly used words in the … workforce.     … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …
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Preferential retention of genes from one parental genome after polyploidy illustrates the nature and scope of the genomic conflicts induced by hybridization
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A chromosome‐scale reference genome of trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata) provides insights into disease resistance, cold tolerance and genome evolution in Citrus
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Ray Turner Completes Last Tour of Lab Duty at JGI
… 15 years, Ray Turner has been one constant for the Joint Genome Institute. On July 1, 2020, that all changed. Ray’s … as a typical monthly JGI All-Hands Meeting, after a couple of perfunctory items, the agenda went off the rails – … person needs establish the culture of workforce safety and diversity and working together and making a welcoming and …
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JGI@25: Cow Rumen and the Early Days of Metagenomics
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … coherent pieces called contigs — into genes and even into genomes — from these environmental samples,” said Matthias … days and that are widely used by many, many scientists.”  Using samples of rumen-digested switchgrass, researchers …
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Hybrid error correction and de novo assembly of single-molecule sequencing reads
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Integrating biogeochemistry with multiomic sequence information in a model oxygen minimum zone
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