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The genome of Polaromonas naphthalenivorans strain CJ2, isolated from coal tar‐contaminated sediment, reveals physiological and metabolic versatility and evolution through extensive horizontal gene transfer
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Cold adaptive traits revealed by comparative genomic analysis of the eurypsychrophile Rhodococcus sp. JG3 isolated from high elevation McMurdo Dry Valley permafrost, Antarctica
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Genome sequence of the mud-dwelling archaeon Methanoplanus limicola type strain (DSM 2279T), reclassification of Methanoplanus petrolearius as Methanolacinia petrolearia and emended descriptions of the genera Methanoplanus and Methanolacinia
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Conserved genomic collinearity as a source of broadly applicable, fast evolving, markers to resolve species complexes: A case study using the lichen-forming genus Peltigera section Polydactylon
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High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of Ensifer sp. PC2, isolated from a nitrogen-fixing root nodule of the legume tree (Khejri) native to the Thar Desert of India
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Genome Sequence of Kosmotoga olearia Strain TBF 19.5.1, a Thermophilic Bacterium with a Wide Growth Temperature Range, Isolated from the Troll B Oil Platform in the North Sea
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Complete genome sequence of Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius C56-YS93, a novel biomass degrader isolated from obsidian hot spring in Yellowstone National Park
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What Happens Underground Influences Global Nutrient Cycles
… projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, two Department of Energy … Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for … alga  Chlamydomonas reinhardtii , one of the JGI’s Flagship genomes. She and her colleagues have generated a …
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W. Berkeley Kauffman
Berkeley is responsible for receiving and processing user samples. His R&D work …
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Cultivating Symbiotic Antarctic Microbes
… consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate symbiont’s genome is often reduced …
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Hiroshi Otani
Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying … Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed … Education … Publications …
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Tracking the Origins of Methane-Producing Microbes
… cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three pathways for methanogenesis: hydrogen-dependent and CO2-reducing, or … Biohub, and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … and Verstraetearchaeota lineages. The archaeal genome was detected in samples collected by Stephen Quake’s …
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