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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 …

… conducted some microscopy studies over the next couple of years, and realized it was a sulfur-oxidizing prokaryote. … the study, performed the 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify and classify the prokaryote. “I thought they were eukaryotes; I didn’t …

… biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground fungi have lived in symbiosis with plant … Cole and their team found over 1,000 upregulated genes, 188 of which were shared with previous studies in the same …

… dwell in herbivore guts and help them digest their last leafy meal. In their evolutionary history, these fungi branched … proposal. The next step for the team was to try to identify what natural products the fungi were making. So, Trent … Contract Nos. DE-AC02-05CH11231 (JGI) and DE-AC05-76RL01830 (EMSL). CLS is also supported by a National Science …

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 …

… 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 …

… 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 … of new protein families had started to plateau in recent years, perhaps suggesting that scientists had “captured” …

… in, on, and around the planet remain unknown. In recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic … Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant to PFD (2019-06265). This work was also sponsored by NSF grants DEB-1441717, OCE-1335810, and OIA-1826734 to RS. …

Unique Capability DAP-seq allows researchers to identify all the sites where transcription factors bind quickly … ENCODE project known as FUNCODE. “We noticed a few years ago that there is no shortage of fungal genomes … functional interpretation is as tough as it has been 10 years ago,” he said. “We thought about reconstructing gene …

… the simplest cotton genome ( Gossypium raimondii ) several years ago.   As well as the seminal Human Genome Project DOE …

… rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, these enzymes are often loosely understood, … plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify 2,938 putative AT  genes. Within the AT genes identified … that even enzymes that evolved separately for billions of years have some common signatures of muli-substrate …