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JGI@25: Cow Rumen and the Early Days of Metagenomics
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … therefore hold clues to how humans could do the same on an industrial scale to produce biofuels . Since one of the …
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Complete genome sequence of the termite hindgut bacterium Spirochaeta coccoides type strain (SPN1T), reclassification in the genus Sphaerochaeta as Sphaerochaeta coccoides comb. nov. and emendations of the family Spirochaetaceae and the genus
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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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A Grass Model to Help Improve Giant Miscanthus
Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A … from the Chan-Zuckerberg BioHub and the Marthella Foskett Brown family. … CABBI release CABBI Team Sequences …
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A Grass Model to Help Improve Giant Miscanthus
Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy and perenniality. The Science A … from the Chan-Zuckerberg BioHub and the Marthella Foskett Brown family. … Miscanthus sinensis genome … CABBI Sequences …
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From Competition to Cooperation
Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced … hemicellulose, and lignin in plant cell walls, while brown rot cannot break down the lignin but use cellulose. …
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JGI@25: A Single Cell, Myriad Microbial Discoveries
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … led to a draft genome of the first deep-sea, oil-eating bacterium from a single cell. Several years later, the …
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Metagenome-Assembled Genomes from a Microbiome Grown in Dairy Manure Hydrolysate
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Fishing for Novel Cellulose Degraders
A “bait and hook” single-cell genomic approach to bioprospecting. The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment … hot springs, they uncovered a novel cellulose-degrading bacterium typically found in low abundances. The Impact …
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Finding the Fermenters
Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an interactive and comprehensive database of fermentative … guts, sediments, and anaerobic bioreactors. Aside from producing energy that the organisms can use to thrive, the …
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An Age of CRAGE: Advances in Rapidly Engineering Non-model Bacteria
A group led by JGI scientists have made strides in improving and applying a method that allows researchers to quickly … simiae  with fluorescent markers to visualize the bacterium colonizing plant roots — a proof-of-principle for …
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Viruses Reprogram Cells into Different Virocells
Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a … at EMSL. The team infected the marine  Pseudoalteromonas bacterium with two unrelated viruses: siphovirus PSA-HS2 and …
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