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… UC Merced graduate student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … and sediment with collaborators at the Center for Scientific Research and Higher Education at Ensenada (CICESE) in …

… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … a computer could use to conduct a similar type of search in microbial and metagenomic databases. In this case, the … of phage-bacterial coevolution and are also useful tools in CRISPR-Cas applications, but we are limited in our …

… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … of enzymes. It’s useful to differentiate these enzyme tools into two groups: core metabolism and specialized … to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a phylogenetic tree using bioinformatic software called FastTree and …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … the air, large swaths of the bleached, skeletal remains of trees can be seen. These plagued patches have become … in their neighborhoods and nearby forests with the right tools to track infection. The parallel development of the …

… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play … at Colorado State University have many questions about the microbial communities deep underground, and before the …

… in their chosen field or fields through the publication of multiple highly cited papers during the last decade” by … bacterial and archaeal genomes from diverse branches of the Tree of Life.  Its latest addition — made possible in part by … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …

… archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … recent studies now suggest the gene cluster predates this microbial group. Recently published in the Proceedings of … methanogenesis occurring in the entire archaeal domain of life.” …

… 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … environments — ultimately allowing them to adapt to life on land. Learning that these genetic tools existed in close algal relatives  to terrestrial …

… The work was enabled in part by a community data portal of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome … to another, which can have a significant impact on the microbial communities within soil. Using metagenomics, … which encode enzymes that break down chitin. A protein tree was then constructed with the sequence data to compare …