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… single cell – a symbiont of the green sharpshooter. In 2012, single cells isolated from the microbes found in the oil … microbial populations in oxygen minimum zones identified SAR11 bacteria as initiators of nitrogen loss in these waters. …
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… atmospheric carbon dioxide. Summary Researchers sequenced 11 samples from Asia–Australasia and 13 samples from the … by the NSF awards DEB- 1456588 to D.H. and DEB-1442113 to A.R., the Department of Energy award 0000238431 to … FEDER funds) to F.J.R.-D., S.C., and A.T.M., grant PID2019-103901GB-I00 of the Spanish Ministry of Science and …
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… and without an inoculation of the M. elongata strain PM193 added to a diluted soil mixture, publishing the results … Interactions . The results were striking. Adding PM193 caused poplar cuttings to grow about 30 percent larger by dry weight than without PM193 . By contrast, using a different endophytic fungus, …
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… Wisconsin. Like we discussed in the primer podcasts ( part 1 here , part 2 here , and part 3 here ), which you should … first started out the natural product community was almost 100% bacterial. Only people working in mycotoxins worked … do you check if they’re there? Like we always talk about 16S for bacteria, but we don’t talk about it so easily with …
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… toward filling gaps on the fungal Tree of Life through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project. Hacquard’s group had assembled … populations around Europe. The JGI sequenced and annotated 41 fungal isolates from the collection. The team then … Grigoriev , the paper is an “excellent example” of how a 1000 Fungal Genomes project can enable studies of plant root …
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… across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry … root cells) lineages. To learn why, researchers analyzed 135 fungal genomes representing major fungal families, … U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 within the framework of the Mycorrhizal Genomics …
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… and the DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have selected 11 proposals for support from 53 received through a joint …
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… Cas14 proteins discovered from JGI’s IMG/M database and … report the identification of active Cas enzymes – dubbed Cas14 – that target ssDNA. In contrast, the seminal Cas9 … while Burstein is now at Tel Aviv University. The Cas14 proteins are ~400–700 amino acids (aa) in size, half that …
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… relative of SOD is P. infestans , responsible for the mid-19th century Irish potato famine. Shortly before the … . Science. 2006 Sep 1;313(5791):1261-6. doi: 10.1126/science.1128796 Science News of the Day: Stokstad E. Genetics. Genomes highlight …
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… to the heart of the Berkeley Lab campus. By Friday, October 18, the production sequencing labs in Building 100 were silent. Twenty years after the JGI united the … heart of the Berkeley Lab main campus. On Monday, November 11, a week after they’d been moved to Berkeley , two of the …
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… the virus had been infecting the cell. The team assembled 130 genomes from their sample — a small proportion of the … mat, the virus-to-host ratio for most pairs was close to 1. Even the most abundant virus was only 11 times more abundant than its host. There just don’t seem …
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… that there was almost nothing. Now, this is back in the 1970s. So, I thought to myself, maybe I can use my … natural products in the ocean weren’t studied up until the 1970s. You know, I mean, people knew about plants’ chemistry ever since the isolation of morphine, 1870 or something like that. And so people were well aware …
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