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… organisms than ever before. In 2006, the JGI produced 33 billion base pairs of sequence; by 2023, that number was …
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… to quickly modify diverse bacterial genomes. In 2019, the JGI’s Yasuo Yoshikuni and his team announced in …
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… ancestors can be found in fossil records dating over a billion years old. It’s an insanely diverse group of …
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… food webs on Earth. And at their base are microscopic, photosynthetic algae. But human-induced climate change , a … know them. At the base of marine food webs are microscopic photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the … to favor eukaryotes ( microorganisms with a nucleus). These photosynthesizing eukaryotes, or algae, form the basis of …
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… the Department of Energy (DOE) colleagues. “At that time (1986) 98% of the human genome was thought to be junk DNA, so … Health that this effort would prove invaluable. By the mid-1990s, the sequencing efforts expanded beyond LANL to … of Hamilton Smith’s discovery of restriction enzymes in the 1960s, as well as Jill Banfield and Jennifer Doudna ’s work …
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… diversity and function. Nature Microbiol. 7(9):1419-1430. Ye et al (2022) The role of zinc in the adaptive … al (2021) Anaerobic gut fungi are an untapped reservoir of natural products. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 118(18):e2019855118. Miyauchi et al (2020) Large-scale genome …
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… science. Rev. Microbiol. 18:313-314. Roux S, et al. 2019. Cryptic inoviruses are pervasive in bacteria and archaea across Earth’s biomes. Nature Microbiol. 4: 1895-1906. Roux S, et al. 2019. Minimum information about an uncultivated virus genome …
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