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Whole Genome Analyses Suggests that Burkholderia sensu lato Contains Two Additional Novel Genera (Mycetohabitans gen. nov., and Trinickia gen. nov.): Implications for the Evolution of Diazotrophy and Nodulation in the Burkholderiaceae
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Novel heavy metal resistance gene clusters are present in the genome of Cupriavidus neocaledonicus STM 6070, a new species of Mimosa pudica microsymbiont isolated from heavy-metal-rich mining site soil
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Genome sequence of the thermophilic fresh-water bacterium Spirochaeta caldaria type strain (H1T), reclassification of Spirochaeta caldaria, Spirochaeta stenostrepta and Spirochaeta zuelzerae in the genus Treponema as Treponema caldaria comb. nov.,
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The More the Merrier: Making the Case for Plant Pan-genomes
… Brachypodium model system traces polyploid genome evolution. Flowering plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each parent. Having three or more …
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An Automated Tool for Assessing Virus Data Quality
… recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous … to help researchers assess and improve the quality of metagenome-assembled viral genomes . The Impact The microbes …
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2024 Progress Report
… Genomics Building (IGB) seen above is home to the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI). Researchers from the DOE Systems … Over the last year, the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute has continued its journey to realize our … The organisms on our planet encode these functions in their genomes, and the JGI is uniquely positioned to combine …
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Streamlining Regulon Identification in Bacteria
… in Streptomyces coelicolor . The Impact As an integrative genome science user facility, connecting genes to functions … of the mission of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … addressed in the study were found to control more than 100 genes, one of which was directly characterized by …
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Learning to Look
… by scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … are filamentous viruses with small, single-stranded DNA genomes and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not … and metagenome datasets, ultimately identifying more than 10,000 inovirus-like sequences compared to the 56 previously …
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Gut Fungi: Unexpected Source of Novel Chemicals
… called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and
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Complete genome sequence of Planctomyces brasiliensis type strain (DSM 5305T), phylogenomic analysis and reclassification of Planctomycetes including the descriptions of Gimesia gen. nov., Planctopirus gen. nov. and Rubinisphaera gen. nov. and emended
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The Case for Conservation
… moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each … a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome assemblies highlight the multiple advances in … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute was supported by the Office of Science of …
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