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JGI Scientists Pen Genome Watch Articles
Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … with the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK — a nonprofit that was founded to help sequence the human genome. Today, … a Symposium at the Royal Society. The editors at the Nature family of journals noticed Woyke would be coming to town and …
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Massive lateral transfer of genes encoding plant cell wall-degrading enzymes to the mycoparasitic fungus Trichoderma from its plant-associated hosts
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The F-box protein gene exo-1 is a target for reverse engineering enzyme hypersecretion in filamentous fungi
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Biochemical and structural characterization of enzymes in the 4-hydroxybenzoate catabolic pathway of lignin-degrading white-rot fungi
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Awakening the Sleeping Carboxylase Function of Enzymes: Engineering the Natural CO2‑Binding Potential of Reductases
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Cellular assays identify barriers impeding iron-sulfur enzyme activity in a non-native prokaryotic host
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Recent Activity in Expanding Populations and Purifying Selection Have Shaped Transposable Element Landscapes across Natural Accessions of the Mediterranean Grass Brachypodium distachyon
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Microbial polyphenol metabolism is part of the thawing permafrost carbon cycle
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A Better Way to Find RNA Virus Needles in the Proverbial Database Haystacks
Team develops a computational pipeline to sift and characterize RNA virus sequences.  A zoo once offered a coloring book featuring polar bears in winter scenes that came with crayons in various shades of white. To … While all RNA viruses have a gene that encodes for an enzyme called RNS-directed RNA Polymerase (RdRP), necessary …
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The metagenome of the marine anammox bacterium ‘Candidatus Scalindua profunda’ illustrates the versatility of this globally important nitrogen cycle bacterium
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Niche differentiation of bacteria and fungi in carbon and nitrogen cycling of different habitats in a temperate coniferous forest: A metaproteomic approach
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Restoring wetlands on intensive agricultural lands modifies nitrogen cycling microbial communities and reduces N2O production potential
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