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Effects of Polar Light Cycle on Microbial Food Web
Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … when sunlight becomes scant, Ace Lake’s bacteria instead go through a boom and bust cycle aligned with light … cycles. Water samples from Ace Lake were collected over a 10-year period and sent to JGI for metagenomic sequencing. A …
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The Expanding Universe of Methane Metabolisms in Archaea
Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into … important to understand early life, but also to link the evolution of this metabolism to geochemical data, which in … may be analogous to environments found on early Earth.”  Through the JGI Community Science Program, Inskeep and McKay …
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From Textbook to Real World Applications
When local students Maya Hanck of Carondelet High School and Tim Kostolansky of De La Salle High School expressed an interest in learning …
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Ian Blaby
Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the Joint Genome … where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at University of … Cell . 25: 11, 4305-4323. 2013 Blaby et. al., Experimental evolution of a facultative thermophile from a mesophilic …
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The high-quality draft genome of peach (Prunus persica) identifies unique patterns of genetic diversity, domestication and genome evolution
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The Genome of Polaromonas sp. Strain JS666: Insights into the Evolution of a Hydrocarbon- and Xenobiotic-Degrading Bacterium, and Features of Relevance to Biotechnology▿ †
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Comparative analysis of the transcriptomes of Populus trichocarpa and Arabidopsis thaliana suggests extensive evolution of gene expression regulation in angiosperms
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The genome of the soybean cyst nematode (Heterodera glycines) reveals complex patterns of duplications involved in the evolution of parasitism genes
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JGI Scientists Pen Genome Watch Articles
Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … leaders in environmental genomics from around the globe through a collaborative network of researchers that we … Igor Grigoriev took readers on a quick romp through the  evolution and domestication of yeast , a model eukaryote. …
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The Surprising Structure of a Shrub Willow Sex Chromosome
A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex … some, including shrub willow  Salix purpurea , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: … National Laboratory. The JGI sequenced the shrub willows through the  Community Science Program , using long-read …
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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 … and harnessing partnerships, enhancing the JGI’s impact through communication, and maximizing stewardship of DOE …
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Nikos Kyrpides
Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … GA et al. (2023) Unraveling the functional dark matter through global metagenomics. Nature . 622(7983):594-602. …
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