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… ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two billion years ago, cyanobacteria acquired the ability to produce …

… rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely understood, … using bioinformatic software called FastTree and identified 62 distinct AT groups. However, no single AT group was … that even enzymes that evolved separately for billions of years have some common signatures of muli-substrate …

… 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, …

… expediting BGC and biosynthesis research.  Summary Over the years several secondary metabolites databases have been made …

… of 24 new mushroom genomes, and assembling genomes from 60 existing sequences, this work expands the family tree … Lentinula genus diverged roughly 28 million years ago, when the largest mammal ever, Paraceratherium, … … This research was supported by the NSF awards DEB- 1456588 to D.H. and DEB-1442113 to A.R., the Department of …

United States began forming in Alaska. Over the next two years it slowly spread, raising water temperatures by a few … go from coastal to open ocean waters. Between 2010 and 2016, Hallam and his colleagues collected more than 270 water … events such as The Blob is difficult, but critical. By 2016, the microbial populations had begun to recover from the …

… that adapted to marine environments hundreds of millions of years ago.  The Impact Chloroflexota are bacteria that act … production. … The work (proposal:  https://doi.org/10.46936/10.25585/60000691 , and  …

… genetic foundations that helped plants conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ … the US National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award (DBI-1652164, 1933521), the Nebraska Tobacco Settlement Biomedical …

… other enzymes in the CRISPR-Cas system. For the past few years they have partnered with JGI’s Microbiome Data Science … longtime JGI collaborator Jill Banfield. "It was 2006, and I was sitting in my office on the seventh floor of … for Some Type V CRISPR-Cas Systems Mol Cell. 2020 Aug 6;79(3):416-424.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.molcel.2020.06.022. …

… a JGI Community Science Program proposal that started six years earlier, researchers put together what they called the …

… and filtering water. Peat formed there over thousands of years sequesters more carbon than all other vegetation types … protecting these ecosystems. … The work (proposal no. 10.46936/10.25585/60001030) (A.J.S.) conducted by the US Department …

… for fungal metagenomics. Two more CSP proposals came in 2016 that would complement these initial efforts: Spatafora and … has “significantly advanced our understanding of 1 billion years of evolution in Kingdom Fungi — from phylogenetic …