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… the authors who offer perspectives on what the next five years of innovation could look like. In one article, … studying virus-host dynamics in nature. In the last few years, mapping the planet’s viral diversity has advanced …
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… biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant … gene expression within circular capture areas roughly 55-microns in diameter — about the width of a human hair. At …
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… the ocean through vents at temperatures that can exceed 750 degrees Fahrenheit. The minerals in these fluids include … function in such extreme conditions. They identified 511 new or recently discovered genera of bacteria and … Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 and DBI-2047598 to K.A. We …
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… the JGI Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he … deconstruction by anaerobic fungi. Nature Microbiol. 8(4):596-610. Nelson et al (2022) Wildfire-dependent changes in … of polar phytoplankton. Nature Ecol Evol . 6(7):965-978. Grigoriev et al (2021) PhycoCosm, a comparative algal …
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… list of genes, termed The GreenCut2 Resource . It details 597 genes coding for proteins that are unique to …
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Olpidium zoospores remained largely untouched until seven years later. In 2018, as members of the ZyGoLife consortium … Taking a conservative approach, we were able to assemble ~75% of the Olpidium genome and retrieve ~300 markers for … to the sequencing effort by the JGI and ZyGoLife in recent years. With the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic …
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… more than once, and these events took place a million years apart: the individual with a maternal B. distachyon parent (D plastotype) some 1.4 million years ago (Mya), while the S plastotype was a more recent … anticipated with only minor gene loss even after a million years.” Reference genomes for B. distachyon , B. stacei …
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… aquifer in 2007 to achieve this goal. In less than four years, parts of the shallow portions of the groundwater were … remain. To identify the microbes involved in the early years of the biodegradation process, researchers collected … the ERD process. … The work (proposal: 10.46936/10.25585/60000717 ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …
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… papers, including two Nature Plants publications, in five years, have come out of the JGI-supported project. “The JGI … of the DNA Synthesis Science Program by applying to the year-round Community Science Program Functional Genomics …
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… we’ve already defined. “A huge percentage — around 30–50% of the protein families that we knew so far — still does … but we knew the families,” Kyrpides said. Yet, “almost 20 years of metagenomic data and metagenomic analysis, and … of new protein families had started to plateau in recent years, perhaps suggesting that scientists had “captured” …
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… this way was challenging, according to Martin. “Twelve years ago, when we mapped the first sequenced RNA from the … Fungal Genomes project changed that. This is a multi-year project in collaboration with the JGI to sequence 1000 … After starting with about 200 fungal genomes, in just a few years, he said, the 1000 Fungal Genomes project, together …
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… large-scale single cell genomics by collecting nearly 500 single cells from a single low diversity hot spring … in, on, and around the planet remain unknown. In recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic … diverse than those within more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from …
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