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… rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely understood, … plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify 2,938 putative AT genes. Within the AT genes identified … that even enzymes that evolved separately for billions of years have some common signatures of muli-substrate …
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… into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … with the first traces possibly at ~3.5 Gy (billion years),” Borrel and Gribaldo said in an email. “Therefore, …
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… expediting BGC and biosynthesis research. Summary Over the years several secondary metabolites databases have been made … Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]. … SMC is the most comprehensive BGC database available …
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… from around the world. By complete sequencing of 24 new mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 … of Lentinula species.The Lentinula genus diverged roughly 28 million years ago, when the largest mammal ever, Paraceratherium, …
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… such as hurricanes and droughts. Another one began in late 2013, when a large patch of warm ocean water about a third … United States began forming in Alaska. Over the next two years it slowly spread, raising water temperatures by a few … which go from coastal to open ocean waters. Between 2010 and 2016, Hallam and his colleagues collected more than …
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… that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago. The Impact Chloroflexota are bacteria that act … … The work (proposal: https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60000691 , and https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60007554 ) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …
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… that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ … three strains of Zygnema circumcarinatum . Published May 2024 in Nature Genetics by an international research …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … other enzymes in the CRISPR-Cas system. For the past few years they have partnered with JGI’s Microbiome Data Science …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … a JGI Community Science Program proposal that started six years earlier, researchers put together what they called the …
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… a genus of just under 400 mosses that can carry up to 25 times their dry weight in water, makes up the … and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon than all other vegetation types … these ecosystems. … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department of …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements … has “significantly advanced our understanding of 1 billion years of evolution in Kingdom Fungi — from phylogenetic …
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… with different lifestyles. The Science The bacterium SAR324 is unusually cosmopolitan. In the ocean’s North Pacific … tend to stay localized at different depths. But SAR324 can be found throughout the water column, from the warm, … cruises in 2015 and 2016. At Station ALOHA , site of the 30-years-long Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT), they collected …
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