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Thermal Stress Has Minimal Effects on Bacterial Communities of Thermotolerant Symbiodinium Cultures
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Multiple sources of aerobic methane production in aquatic ecosystems include bacterial photosynthesis
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Ecological divergence of syntopic marine bacterial species is shaped by gene content and expression
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Convergent reductive evolution and host adaptation in Mycoavidus bacterial endosymbionts of Mortierellaceae fungi
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Engineering Escherichia coli for Biodiesel Production Utilizing a Bacterial Fatty Acid Methyltransferase
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Insights into the bacterial community and its temporal succession during the fermentation of wine grapes
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Offerings & Capabilities
The central mission of the JGI’s Genomic Technologies department is   ensuring users have access to cutting-edge …
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New Vision, New Mission, New Plan: The JGI’s Next Five Years
New 5-year strategic plan outlines how the JGI will advance the … for the global research community. The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) has released … calibrate progress toward our near- and long-term goals.” View the JGI 2024-2029 Strategic Plan as a downloadable pdf.  …
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Ancient Algae Reveal Secrets of Plant Evolution
Research uncovers the genetic foundations that helped plants … 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  Zygnematophyceae , … environments — ultimately allowing them to adapt to life on land. Learning that these genetic tools existed in …
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Methane Makers in Yosemite’s Lakes
Meet researchers who have hiked, rafted and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, …
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Tomas Tyml
Tomas uses traditional cultivation methods along with microscopy and … microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding of the roles these associations play in the evolutionary history of life. …
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Special Initiatives & Programs
Overview The JGI provides sequencing, synthesis, and targeted … ,  Science Focus Areas  (SFA) opportunities, and the  Office of Science Early Career Research Program .   If …
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