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… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of … energy and environmental challenges. In March 2008, the genome sequence of the forest fungus Laccaria bicolor was … a symbiotic relationship with the poplar, a JGI Flagship Genome and the first tree to have its genome sequenced. …

… Microbiology column last year — and there’s more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … biology. Du Toit invited JGI to write half of the 2019 Genome Watch articles as a way to expose readers to a …

… version of a specific chemical, where ordinary Carbon-12 atoms are swapped for the heavier, non-radioactive isotope … an environment. For example, SIP experiments can show how soil microbes cycle nitrogen and carbon, or how freshwater … proposal calls to the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …

… Nucleocytoviricota , these giant viruses boast larger genomes than many bacteria. Until recently, understanding of … Emiliania huxleyi, a microeukaryote, forms large algal blooms in the ocean that cycle environmental carbon and … virions (700 nm in diameter) to much smaller virions (120 nm in diameter). Across the phylum  Nucleocytoviricota , …

… microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, they are difficult to study individually. … National Laboratory and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility at … play a critical role in sequestering carbon and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and understanding how to improve …

… will help solve energy and environmental challenges. In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for … year, the JGI team reported the first closed and finished genome derived from an uncultured bacterial single cell – a symbiont of the green sharpshooter. In 2012, single cells isolated from the …

… This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas … works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – …

… results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms is incredibly useful for … like plasmids, the picture is far from complete.  In 2021 , scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital … together, they found most bacterial genomes from water and soil communities were at least 80% complete when studied …