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From Stress to Growth: The adaptive mechanisms of algae in changing Arctic waters
P. psychrophila genes drive resilience when salinity fluctuates. The … ice in the Arctic has decreased by more than 30% in terms of quantity and thickness. Replacing older, thicker ice with … sequencing from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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Methane Makers in Yosemite’s Lakes
Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as … the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …
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Genomewide annotation and comparative genomics of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) in the polypore species Bjerkandera adusta, Ganoderma sp. and Phlebia brevispora
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Do Genetic Drift and Gene Flow Affect the Geographic Distribution of Female Plants in Gynodioecious Lobelia siphilitica?
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Training the Next Generation of Talent
New Graduate Internship Program Builds Bridges Between 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 …
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Combating a Global Threat to a Clonal Crop: Banana Black Sigatoka Pathogen Pseudocercospora fijiensis (Synonym Mycosphaerella fijiensis) Genomes Reveal Clues for Disease Control
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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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Hiroshi Otani
Since joining the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016, Dr. Otani has been studying secondary metabolism in microbes, … technologies and methodologies that facilitate discovery of new secondary metabolites. Prior to joining the JGI, he … Mol. Microbiol. 87, 1223-1236. PubMed … Education … Publications …
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The Genome of the Acid Soil-Adapted Strain Rhizobium favelukesii OR191 Encodes Determinants for Effective Symbiotic Interaction With Both an Inverted Repeat Lacking Clade and a Phaseoloid Legume Host
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Nandita Nath
Nandita is involved in developing new methods to improve genome recovery from single cells and to build sequencing libraries from minimal DNA input …
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How Maize Makes An Antibiotic Cocktail
Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against infections — using … synthesized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … in multiple, semi-redundant clusters on different maize chromosomes. The collective results demonstrate that the …
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