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Olpidium, The Key to the Origin of Terrestrial Fungi
… Before 2006, Olpidium was one of the many obscure fungi of Chytridiomycota (the “chytrids”).  A collaborative team … able to assemble ~75% of the Olpidium genome and retrieve ~300 markers for phylogenetic reconstruction . We were also … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …
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Calculating the Costs of Multiple Switchgrass Gene Copies
… A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, has discovered that the …
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A Sorghum Pangenome Opens More Doors to Discovery
… Leveraging decades of technological development, dozens of reference genomes and thousands of resequenced sorghum … end uses and conditions.  The JGI’s sequencing produced the 33 reference genomes to build this pangenome, including a … The U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science …
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JGI-UC Merced Interns Share Their 2021 Experiences
… During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually … hone science presentation skills, and participate in professional development enrichment activities. For some … Evolution of the Mitochondria Internship … Cross Species Integration of Single Cell Transcriptomes …
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