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… 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 … known to be made only by aerobic fungi. In order to identify more of the fungal natural products, O’Malley and her …
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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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Atlas in Nucleic Acids Research . The project spans 15 years and involves more than 17 research groups. The team … Having a better handle on the gene function helps identify the molecular targets for plant improvement. …
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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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… assay with RNA sequencing, they were able to identify the target genes of 11 sigma factors in Streptomyces … and cellular differentiation. The tough part is identifying the set of genes associated with any particular … and sigma factors. However, currently the process for identifying the particular regulon and target genes associated …
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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 … of new protein families had started to plateau in recent years, perhaps suggesting that scientists had “captured” …
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… in, on, and around the planet remain unknown. In recent years, advances in sequencing technologies and bioinformatic … In these springs, temperatures can reach as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this … Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant to PFD (2019-06265). This work was also sponsored by NSF grants …
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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 …
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… 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 …
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… expediting BGC and biosynthesis research. Summary Over the years several secondary metabolites databases have been made …
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Lentinula genus diverged roughly 28 million years ago, when the largest mammal ever, Paraceratherium, … by FEDER funds) to F.J.R.-D., S.C., and A.T.M., grant PID2019-103901GB-I00 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and …
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