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… under Contract Numbers DE-AC02–05CH11231 (JGI) and DE-AC05–76RL01830 (EMSL). This work was funded by a Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation Investigator Award (#3790) and an NSF Biological Oceanography award (#1536989) to …
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… look like popcorn is literally growing on plants, with fluffy white bolls bursting out of the green pods in every … the simplest cotton genome ( G. raimondii ) several years ago. Studying the cotton genomes provides breeders … lineages had dispersed and diversified over a million years ago, their genomes were “remarkably” stable. “We …
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… biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant …
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CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters. The Science Microbial … active secondary metabolites and helping them identify and describe the functions of the biosynthetic gene … highly regulated in bacteria, making it difficult to identify which pathway corresponds to which metabolite. Finding a …
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… dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched … californiae , and Piromyces finnis . In work reported in 2017, the fungal genomes were sequenced by the U.S. Department … proposal. The next step for the team was to try to identify what natural products the fungi were making. So, Trent …
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Jarrod Chapman, developed a method to correctly identify polyploid subgenomes without needing to know the genomes … it’s hard to analyze. The ancestors are a bit hard to identify and there’s a small possibility that something could be … on this kind of analysis in more species, as well as modifying this method to study other types of problems …
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… the ocean through vents at temperatures that can exceed 750 degrees Fahrenheit. The minerals in these fluids include … funded by the US-National Science Foundation grants OCE-0728391, OCE-0937404, OCE-1558795 to A-L.R, and OCE-2049478 and DBI-2047598 …
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… more than once, and these events took place a million years apart: the individual with a maternal B. distachyon parent (D plastotype) some 1.4 million years ago (Mya), while the S plastotype was a more recent … anticipated with only minor gene loss even after a million years.” Reference genomes for B. distachyon , B. stacei …
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… a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that single beam. When it comes to … but we knew the families,” Kyrpides said. Yet, “almost 20 years of metagenomic data and metagenomic analysis, and … the protein families up by environment and found only 7% of protein families were shared across all eight …
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