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… characteristics — creating many different ways of processing nitrogen. To boost crops more efficiently in … to the way many organisms function, they have a sense of why nitrogen metabolisms can be so varied.  As evolution has … with archaea having around 15, eubacteria around 25, and eukaryotes having slightly larger numbers due to their …

In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … beyond the tried-and-true method of traditional shotgun metagenomics. One approach uses fluorescence-activated cell … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …

… the slightly murky waters in the tube look like a scoop of stormwater, complete with leaves, debris, and even … The bacterium itself was discovered by Olivier Gros, a marine biology professor at the Université des Antilles in … the bacterial cells on the molecular level. They amplified, sequenced and assembled the genomes. In parallel, Gros’ lab …

A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To … an approach, the team says, that could be applied to other eukaryotes. … This work was supported by DOE Joint Genome …

Survey of Setaria's natural diversity reveals seed dispersal in … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), generated genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a very high quality reference S. viridis genome sequence. Analysis of these plant genome sequences also led …