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Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that … to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a particular gene …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate for life to flourish. For Guillaume Borrel and Simonetta … common ancestor between Archaea and Eukarya.   One genome, two metabolic pathways “Up to this point, most phylogenomic …

The soybean is a crop that could boost biofuels and fertilize fields. So in 2010, the JGI helped publish the original genome sequence for the soybean, Glycine max. With a full genome sequence, …