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The epsomitic phototrophic microbial mat of Hot Lake, Washington: community structural responses to seasonal cycling
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Diversity and function of methyl-coenzyme M reductase-encoding archaea in Yellowstone hot springs revealed by metagenomics and mesocosm experiments
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Web of microbes (WoM): a curated microbial exometabolomics database for linking chemistry and microbes
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Analysis of twelve genomes of the bacterium Kerstersia gyiorum from brown-throated sloths (Bradypus variegatus), the first from a non-human host.
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Sequencing Sphagnum Leads to Discovery of Sex Chromosomes
A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The … to stress. The Impact Despite constituting less than 5% of land on Earth, peatlands store approximately one-third … change. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at …
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What Happens To a Rainforest When You Dial Up Drought?
Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, … key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take a look at what happens to that … storage when a rainforest hits a drought. Tag along with their experiments in a fully enclosed, human-made ecosystem: …
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JGI@25: Using Team Science to Build Communities Around Data
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … (Graphic: Neil Byers) The JGI launched the 1000 Fungal Genomes (1KFG) Project through a 2012 Community Science … Tree of Life … Fungal Dataset … Plant Datasets … Genome Insider …
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Water mass age structures the auxiliary metabolic gene content of free-living and particle-attached deep ocean viral communities
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Viral dynamics in a high-rate algal pond reveals a burst of Phycodnaviridae diversity correlated with episodic algal mortality
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JGI@25: Studying Sorghum’s Survival Skills
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … flood hardiness. Even with little water, full sunlight and hot temperatures, sorghum plants can photosynthesize and … climate has earned it a place on the JGI’s Flagship Plant Genome roster. Sorghum has an important feature in common …
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Thawing permafrost, microbes, and viruses: Gary Trubl — Part 2
… and postdoc at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …
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Pinning Down a Piece of Photosynthesis
By studying the structure and function of a cyanobacterial protein, … scientist at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … list of genes, termed  The GreenCut2 Resource . It details 597 genes coding for proteins that are unique to …
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