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In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As both … short audio production, we’ll hear from Karolina Heyduk, an evolutionary plant biologist at the University of Hawai’i at … they need. Karolina is working to better understand what genetic features make CAM possible. So, she’s studying …

The Impact The Antarctic lakes are a “treasure trove” of unknown microbes that play critical roles in … cycling, and is interested in understanding the genomic basis and ecological consequences of microbe-microbe … lifestyles found in the Antarctic lakes and offers a genetically-tractable model system that could help …

Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and other institutions shared their works-in-progress with 86 … insights from metagenomic data. In deep learning, a branch of machine learning, data is passed through algorithms … the JGI. Sevim’s work is part of an ongoing effort to build greater collaboration between JGI and scientists in the …

… could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one short plant — fire moss — had an unexpected hurdle: ginormous sex chromosomes.  …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … finding that each lichen partner can sexually reproduce: genetic recombination during sex could increase the fitness … transcriptomic data also identified many genes potentially important for the symbiosis, including those involved in …