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… the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over … the gene counts have similarly gone up from 13-25 to 12-39. “Overall,” the team concluded, “we provide a …
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… of California, Irvine, Cristhian and Bryan were among 5 UC Merced CAMP students who earned outstanding research … and 10 honorable mentions were recognized. The 5 UC Merced awardees were: Special Merit Awards Cristhian … “It is a beautiful thing, that our young campus earned 25% of the research awards,” said Jesús Cisneros, director of …
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… rapid environmental changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden … more nutrients to fuel growth. The Impact Over the last 40 years, summer sea ice in the Arctic has decreased by more … of Canada-Compute Canada facilities. The work (10.46936/10.25585/60001017) conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy …
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… heads JGI’s Microbial Program . The team mined more than 8,500 publicly available metagenome datasets generated from … filter the data for the major capsid protein (MCP) to identify NCLDV viruses. JGI researchers previously applied this … 2,074 genomes of large and giant viruses. More than 50,000 copies of the MCP were identified in the metagenomic …
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… seed dispersal in wild populations for the first time. For years, Elizabeth (Toby) Kellogg and other researchers at the … of plants have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her … these plant genome sequences also led researchers to identify a gene related to seed dispersal in wild populations for …
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For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome Institute hosted several UC Merced students this past summer. This year’s cohort for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was …
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Over the years, hundreds of interns have come to the JGI from all …
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… of river health diagnostic systems to monitor for and identify land use or water quality changes. Summary Rivers are key … Environmental Research (BER) grants DE-SC0023084, DE-SC0021350, and DE-AC02-05CH11231. Partial support by US National Science Foundation …
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… production. A reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been published in Nature by an international … or Gb) reference genome for the sugarcane cultivar R570 has been generated and reported in the journal Nature … sugar and biomass. Additionally, the team was able to identify a major locus (Bru1) that durable resistance to brown …
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