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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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What Happens Underground Influences Global Nutrient Cycles
… EMSL and JGI announce FY 2020 collaborative FICUS projects. Through the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) program, … Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …
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Thermus sediminis sp. nov., a thiosulfate-oxidizing and arsenate-reducing organism isolated from Little Hot Creek in the Long Valley Caldera, California
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An Automated Tool for Assessing Virus Data Quality
… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are … recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office of Science of …
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Busting the Unbreakable Lignin
… shows anaerobic fungi can degrade the hardiest of plant components   The Science There are three main ingredients to tackle when it comes to breaking down a … with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …
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Tanja Woyke Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
… of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in the Class of 2020, selected from 118 nominees. The … genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their genomes to the roles they play in the environment. One … viruses (NCLDV) supergroup. As a result, the giant virus protein space grew from 123,000 to over 900,000 proteins, and …
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Soil compartments (bulk soil, litter, root and rhizosphere) as main drivers of soil protistan communities distribution in forests with different nitrogen deposition
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JGI at the AGU Fall Meeting
… This year the AGU Fall Meeting, with the theme “Science is Society,” hosts sessions in … context for thousands of newly sampled microbial genomes from North American watersheds (Invited)” 4pm CST … poster B45O-1813  : Maggie Bowman, PNNL: “EMSL’s 1000 Soils Project: core collection strategy and data types available” …
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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
… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the … 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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Expanding Virophage Diversity
… Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and mCP, respectively), ATPase involved in DNA … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility …
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