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Sequencing Sphagnum Leads to Discovery of Sex Chromosomes
A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … the hummocks or the more water-logged hollows below. These preferences affect their growth rates, decomposition, and … change. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …
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Progress Reports: 2002–2020
Click the cards below to view downloadable pdfs of previous Progress Reports from the Joint Genome Institute.  … FY20 Progress Report … FY19 Progress …
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Exploring Polymorphisms Created by Transposable Elements
My project at the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) was to measure the polymorphisms that …
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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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Honey Bee Gut Microbiota Divvy Up Dinner
Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to metabolizing complex … in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … including collecting and analyzing the honey bee gut metagenome, which was done with the help of the US Department of …
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Training the Next Generation of Talent
DOE JGI, UC Merced Days after presenting the results of his summer research at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI), a DOE Office of Science user … Olmstead was back on campus at the University of California, Merced to start orientation as a first-year graduate …
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Phytozome: Tutorial Workshop from 2022 CROPS Conference @HudsonAlpha
… the June 2022 CROPS Conference at the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology. Phytozome is the Plant Comparative Genomics portal of the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, and facilitates accurate and insightful …
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Crysten Blaby-Haas
Blaby-Haas joined the JGI in 2022 as lead of the Biomolecular Materials Initiative, a partnership … user capability between the JGI and Molecular Foundry for genome-encoded biomaterial discovery, design, and … Google Scholar … Education … Awards and Service … Selected Publications …
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JGI-Enabled Research Demonstrates the Existence of New Methane-Makers
New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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Genome sequences of key bacterial symbionts of entomopathogenic nematodes: Xenorhabdus cabanillasii DSM17905, Xenorhabdus ehlersii DSM16337, Xenorhabdus japonica DSM16522, Xenorhabdus koppenhoeferii DSM18168, and Xenorhabdus mauleonii DSM17908
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The Big Deal About Short Plants
… plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected …
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