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… their rumen are highly capable of breaking down potential biomass sources in ways we are only just beginning to … as well as efficient engineering of biofuels. Since 2010, the JGI has partnered with researchers around the world … researchers put together what they called the Hungate1000, a catalog of 410 rumen microbe genomes. The project …

… them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any …

… cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A study  recently published in  … work was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP150100244) and the Australian Antarctic Science program …

… Analysis of haloarchaeal metagenomes broadens understanding of Antarctic biogeography. … in Antarctic lakes, some of which have salinities 10 times that of seawater. To shed light on the global … genomic variation in haloarchaea, they also characterized metagenomes (collections of partial genomes) from six …

… tantalizing microbial factory, capable of turning abundant biomass carbohydrates — glucose and xylose — into fatty … Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program ( DGE-1110007 ). SA, AB, and MB were supported by NSF  1706134 . SL …