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… conquer land over 600 million years ago. The Science By studying the genes of land plants’ closest algal relative,  … Zygnematophyceae , scientists have enhanced our understanding of how early plants transitioned from water to land. Key …

All staff members of the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) commit to Lawrence Berkeley National Lab’s … on the effective management and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs. The committee serves as …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … because they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material … over 125,000 partial and complete viral genomes. That study multiplied the number of known viral genes by a factor …

Igor Grigoriev from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … the much more extensive taxonomic and genetic sampling, our study confirmed the affinity between Olpidium and the … known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments.     … The U.S. Department …