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Horizontal gene transfer in Histophilus somni and its role in the evolution of pathogenic strain 2336, as determined by comparative genomic analyses
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Cultivation of novel Atribacterota from oil well provides new insight into their diversity, ecology, and evolution in anoxic, carbon-rich environments
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Nikos Kyrpides
… 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … metagenomic map of urban microbiomes and antimicrobial resistance. Cell . 8674:00585-7. Nayfach S et al. 2021. … Thousands of Small, Novel Genes. Cell. 178(5):1245-1259. Publications on Pubmed | Google Scholar … Thomson Reuters …
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Model Fern Reveals Insight into DNA Thievery in Ferns
Open Green Genomes hits milestone with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, … — making it difficult to grasp a deeper understanding of fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii show a …
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Waiting to Respire
Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More than two … oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of …
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A Collaboration to Improve Plant Genome Annotations Across Species
… which specializes in genome improvement for plants. As part of that partnership, the JGI and HudsonAlpha researchers led … function predictions and also due to the inability to link experimental evidence across species. Centralized databases … allowed us to pinpoint and rank biologically relevant and evolutionarily conserved genes that could be potential …
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Computationally Classifying Fungal Lifestyles
… learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a proof of concept, researchers developed an algorithm that … and biofuel production. Learning about the ecology and evolution of  Dothideomycetes could provide more insights …
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Genome analysis of ‘Candidatus Ancillula trichonymphae’, first representative of a deep‐branching clade of Bifidobacteriales, strengthens evidence for convergent evolution in flagellate endosymbionts
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Directed Evolution of Flavin-Dependent Halogenases for Site- and Atroposelective Halogenation of 3‑Aryl-4(3H)‑Quinazolinones via Kinetic or Dynamic Kinetic Resolution
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Ian Blaby
The Plant Cell . 25: 11, 4305-4323. 2013 Blaby et. al., Experimental evolution of a facultative thermophile from a mesophilic … Award for Research Excellence … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …
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Scaling Up Existing Skill Sets
Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired … in fields ranging from plant-microbe interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their …
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JGI Launches Latest Strategic Plan
For the Joint Genome Institute, the end of 2018 was marked by a celebration of contributing over one “petabase” – a quadrillion nucleotide bases of DNA sequence to the public data repositories over its now 20-plus-year …
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