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… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a … aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a …

Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion … oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria …

Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal … The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that “taught” a computer how to classify 101 … and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could provide more insights …

JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in … affect traits. In a text file, the rows of letters A, T, C and G appearing over and over in a dizzying array of … where transcription factors have been repurposed during evolution to control new functions,” O’Malley said. …

Analysis reveals cotton genome stability across global lineages . Come harvest time, the cotton fields look like … that relate directly and indirectly to genetic diversity, evolution, wild germplasm utilization and increasing the … Science “The results described in this  Nature Genetics publication will facilitate deeper understanding of cotton …

Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile genetic elements like … forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  … like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s …