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Biogeography and organic matter removal shape long-term effects of timber harvesting on forest soil microbial communities
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Finding the Fermenters
… prokaryotes. The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with … also used the tool to predict possible functions from 733 metagenome-assembled rumen genomes. Finally, they used the … phenotype and genotype of fermentative prokaryotes on IMG … Publication … Datasets … Datasets … Datasets …
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A Better Way to Find RNA Virus Needles in the Proverbial Database Haystacks
Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  … and viruses vastly outnumber the microbes. Advances in sequencing technologies and computational tools have … store their genetic information in RNA without a DNA stage. “I would argue RNA viruses globally are even less …
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IMG Group
The IMG group owns and maintains integral components of JGI’s production workflow, and is responsible for the annotation and … specificity of single cells and genomes extracted from metagenomes, and also as a metric for quality control within …
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Genome sequence of the clover-nodulating Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii strain TA1
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.   … its intimate associations with endophytes — a group whose effects on plants are still not well understood — scientists … (ARBRE) (ANR-11-LABX 0002 01 to F. Martin), JGI Community sequencing program project (CSP570, DE-AC02-05CH11231), and …
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What Happens To a Rainforest When You Dial Up Drought?
Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling … happens to that storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a fully enclosed, …
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Disentangling the effects of sulfate and other seawater ions on microbial communities and greenhouse gas emissions in a coastal forested wetland
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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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Light-responsive expression atlas reveals the effects of light quality and intensity in Kalanchoë fedtschenkoi, a plant with crassulacean acid metabolism
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Olpidium, The Key to the Origin of Terrestrial Fungi
Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the … attracted the attention of many mycologists with the two publications of the kingdom-wide, multi-gene phylogeny of … to the JGI for whole genome sequencing using the Illumina platform. Unfortunately, both the DNA and RNA samples turned …
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Jeremy Schmutz
… working for the Stanford Human Genome Center, now the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. There he constructed … of the human genome project in 2003, he developed sequencing, assembly, and improvement strategies for de novo … Award … Plant Science Program … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …
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