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… evolutionary history. Retaining ancestral features of both plant and animal cells, it shares nearly 7,000 genes with … co-led by Daniel Rokhsar, head of the JGI’s Computational Biology Program, along with JGI Computational Scientist … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference …

… the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely … Korea as well as a faculty affiliate in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division of Lawrence Berkeley … to core nitrogen metabolism, this team built a phylogenetic tree using bioinformatic software called FastTree and …

… this microbe. The work is an example of how function-driven genomics, which Woyke and her colleagues define as “any form … program (LDRD) entitled ‘Tackling microbial-mediated plant carbon decomposition using “function-driven” genomics’. …

… chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in plants can be befuddling. Most … and its close relative  Populus trichocarpa,  or the poplar tree, are potential biofuel feedstocks of interest to the … sex chromosomes. The results were published in  Genome Biology . The team found that the shrub willow’s W …