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… event that occured some 60 million years ago. Massive gene loss, rampant gene duplications, and even more ancient gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the plant with …

Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and present-day plants The Science In a recent  Nature Genetics paper , researchers focused on the full composition of genes, or pangenome, of the model plant  Marchantia …

CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, … is a technique researchers can use to integrate large genetic payloads directly into diverse microbes. Combining … with a powerful addition to their toolkit to study gene function. As a demonstration, the researchers used …

… up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory … regulation as well as identification of target genes of transcription factors, particularly sigma factors …

… viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and … includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage … diverse new virophage genomes containing all four core genes. These virophages were found in diverse habitats …

Dr. Mouncey has a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and carried forward … Genomics … Jensen, R. O. et al. 2024. Phylogenomics and genetic analysis of solvent-producing Clostridium species. … effects on dimethyl sulfoxide reductase (dor) gene expression. J Bacteriol. 180:5612-8. … AAAS Fellow (2024) …

… microbiomes that influence algal diversity and gene expression. Sailing from pole to pole on four research … algal communities on filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the microbes. And in order to …

… species.  Students collect fungi, sterilize tissue, isolate genes and more. The metadata then goes into iNaturalist. …

… novel clades of RNA viruses and determines novel viral gene functions that may impact hosts and host populations. …

… refine and improve the process of finding novel Cas genes and CRISPR systems. The collaboration has resulted in … Prize … Combining forces with UC Berkeley to seek elusive gene-editing proteins … Berkeley Lab coverage … NERSC & JGI Seek Elusive Proteins for Gene Editing …

… (BDO). To do so, the yeasts received fine-tuning of gene expression through genetic rewiring with CRISPR-Cas9 that enhanced their …