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… and characterize genomic information from uncultivated microbes and viruses. Prior to joining the JGI, she was a … Eloe-Fadrosh EA, et al. 2016. Global metagenomic survey reveals a new bacterial candidate phylum in geothermal … UCSD Undergraduate Scholarship, 2003 and 2004 UCSD Study Abroad Scholarship (James Cook University, Australia), …

… small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be cultivated under laboratory conditions, … Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) . Metagenomics is the study of the microbial communities in the environmental … the microbes in the lab,” noted Stephen Nayfach, the study’s first author and research scientist in Nikos …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in wild populations for the first …

… how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The … the dice. There’s some evidence to support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics … without harming the rest of the microbial community. The study’s publicly available dataset gives researchers the …

… nitrogen, a key ecosystem nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to … nitrogen-metabolizing enzymes are abundant, and to which microbes they belong. This study provides further insights … ground and what escapes to the atmosphere in the form of greenhouse gases (e.g., carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous …

… four times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the study first author Carey put it, these sex chromosomes first … Sigma-Xi Grant-In-Aid of Research, and Society for the Study of Evolution Rosemary Grant Award to S.B.C.; NSF …

… to link genomes with environments to understand how webs of microbes cycle carbon and sustain biomes via the development … V, et al. Reproducible growth of Brachypodium in EcoFAB 2.0 reveals that nitrogen form and starvation modulate root … Swift CL, et al. Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products. …