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… enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … By leveraging metagenomics to sample the entirety of a microbial community out in its natural environment, … from different phyla are capable of methanogenesis. Using metagenomics eliminates confirmation bias, because it …
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… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral … teams joined forces and data sets to describe bacterial genomes for related (“sibling”) lineages Margulisbacteria … researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of the U.S. …
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… Program of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), scientists sequenced the genomes of four Zygnematophyceae algae, which were isolated … plant resilience and productivity. The algal genomes sequences are available on the JGI’s PhycoCosm portal. …
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… researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant Marchantia polymorpha. Commonly … 35 major evolutionary plant lineages in the Open Green Genomes Initiative , a project supported by the U.S. … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …
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… to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities living in extreme conditions. The … structures that enable organisms to swim around. However, genome and metagenomic sequencing conducted by the U.S. … diverse metabolic capabilities offer insights into how microbial processes might be harnessed for applications …
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