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The Surprising Structure of a Shrub Willow Sex Chromosome
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … of the sequences. The variety of palindromes observed in nature — for example, in humans Y chromosomes and some … and Development Program of China (2017YFC0505203, 2016YFD0600101), and the National Key Project for Basic …
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Preferential retention of genes from one parental genome after polyploidy illustrates the nature and scope of the genomic conflicts induced by hybridization
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Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Charting of P. patens Reveals Accumulation of Somatic Mutations During in vitro Culture on the Scale of Natural Variation by Selfing
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Green Algae Reveal One mRNA Encodes Many Proteins
Sean Gallaher, a research scientist in Sabeeha Merchant’s lab and first author of the article. The research team … included scientists at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, UCLA, UC Davis, Brookhaven National Laboratory, … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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Toward More Efficient Artificial Photosynthesis
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Supporting the … faster than RuBisCo, the most common CO-2 fixing enzyme in nature. The library provided the Erb lab with enzymes that …
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Igor Grigoriev
… genomes, from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 … et al (2023) Lignin deconstruction by anaerobic fungi.  Nature Microbiol. 8(4):596-610. Nelson et al (2022) … multicellularity in fungi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 116(15):7409-7418. Varga et al (2019) Megaphylogeny resolves …
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The More the Merrier: Making the Case for Plant Pan-genomes
… the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), relied on a … grass system for answers. Their work  recently appeared in  Nature Communication s. The team studied  Brachypodium …
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Shattering Expectations: Novel Seed Dispersal Gene Found in Green Millet
… have resulted in a paper published October 5, 2020 , in Nature Biotechnology . Kellogg and her colleagues, along … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … genome sequences for nearly 600 green millet plants and released a very high quality reference S. viridis genome …
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Here, There and Everywhere: Large and Giant Viruses Abound Globally
JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of … and giant. In a recent study  published in the journal  Nature , a team led by researchers at the U.S. Department of … a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) uncovered a …
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You Can Move, But You Can’t Hide
Researchers at the JGI develop a tool to quickly and accurately identify mobile … Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  recently described in  Nature Biotechnology  called geNomad identifies and … a DOE Office of Science User Facility at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), with computing …
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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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Nigel Mouncey
… and today, focuses on continuing to build and position JGI as a leading integrative genome science user facility. … on the Leadership Team of the National Microbiome Data Collaborative and served as President of the Society for … for Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology (2021) 2016 World Bio Markets Bio-based Business Person of the Year …
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