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… develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science … to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … a cash crop essential to their economies. It also plays an important role in soil health through nitrogen-fixation and … was published online June 8, 2014 in the journal Nature Genetics . “Common beans are a major societal crop for those …
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Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American Academy of Microbiology (AAM) ! She is among the 68 new Fellows in … developing and harnessing single-cell methods to access the genetic material of uncultivated microbes and link their … from previously understudied clades, establishing their evolutionary relationships and leading to the discovery of …
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… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in the future, the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants … to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a phylogenetic tree using bioinformatic software called FastTree …
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… community at large with access to high-throughput sequencing, synthesis, and metabolomics at the JGI for projects of relevance to Department of Energy (DOE) Mission Areas . … more customized analysis, the JGI also participates in publication of results. See more details on our Review …
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