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A One-Stop Shop for Analyzing Algal Genomes
The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the … with a nucleus). In part because of this evolutionary diversity, algal genomes can be incredibly complex and …
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A One-Stop Shop for Analyzing Algal Genomes
The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the … with a nucleus). In part because of this evolutionary diversity, algal genomes can be incredibly complex and …
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Viruses Reprogram Cells into Different Virocells
Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The … from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … As part of efforts to characterize global microbial diversity with an aim to improve predictive ecosystems …
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A Natural Mechanism Can Turbocharge Viral Evolution
Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes … of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could …
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JGI@25: Following Fungi that Pry Apart Plant Polymers
… 25th anniversary. Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and … sample, or a rumen sample, you’re going to find beautiful diversity.”  Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, …
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Ice cover extent drives phytoplankton and bacterial community structure in a large north‐temperate lake: implications for a warming climate
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A roadmap for research on crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) to enhance sustainable food and bioenergy production in a hotter, drier world
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Contrasting Community Assembly Forces Drive Microbial Structural and Potential Functional Responses to Precipitation in an Incipient Soil System
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Genome-resolved correlation mapping links microbial community structure to metabolic interactions driving methane production from wastewater
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Marine Microbe Contains Multitudes
A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … related 16S rRNA genes, but these genes mask the striking diversity of their genomic capabilities. According to Boeuf, …
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Tanja Woyke Awarded van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics
… to Tanja Woyke, who has been awarded the van Niel International Prize for Studies in Bacterial Systematics for the triennium 2017-2020! Established by the University of Queensland in 1986, the van Niel Prize recognizes … recognized Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured and …
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JGI Announces 2023 Community Science Program Awardees
Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science … Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … “The proposed research by these PIs will address a broad diversity of important scientific questions relevant to the …
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