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Enlarging Windows into Understanding Gene Functions
JGI innovates protocol revealing how genetic variations in sequences … array of combinations, are unremarkable, save perhaps for the absence of all the other letters of the alphabet. … features and functions. Making connections between the structures and functions of the genes encoded in the genome …
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John Vogel
… in the Brachypodium distachyon pan-genome correlates with population structure. Nat. Comm. 8(1), 2184 doi: … Visiting Fellowship Australia … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Service …
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Giant Bacteria Found in Guadeloupe Mangroves Challenge Traditional Concepts
Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity At first … National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the Laboratory for Research in Complex Systems (LRC) in Menlo Park, Calif. … throughout the whole cell are actually contained within a structure that has a membrane,” Volland said. “And this is …
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Complete genome sequence of Jiangella gansuensis strain YIM 002T (DSM 44835T), the type species of the genus Jiangella and source of new antibiotic compounds
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Genomewide annotation and comparative genomics of cytochrome P450 monooxygenases (P450s) in the polypore species Bjerkandera adusta, Ganoderma sp. and Phlebia brevispora
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A Grass Model to Help Improve Giant Miscanthus
Miscanthus  sequence offers insights into benefits of polyploidy … The Science A reference genome sequence and genomic toolkit for the perennial grass  Miscanthus sinensis has been … M. sinensis and a tetraploid  M. sacchariflorus , another species of  Miscanthus that was sequenced. Understanding the …
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SPRUCE-ing Up Science
A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons … the trees in his backyard. Originally from northern California and one of the first students to participate in the … fine tune his approach. “I got a lot of that from Zhong.”   Publication: Carrell AA et al. Habitat-adapted microbial …
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Genome sequence of Phaeobacter inhibens type strain (T5T), a secondary metabolite producing representative of the marine Roseobacter clade, and emendation of the species description of Phaeobacter inhibens
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From Berkeley to Binghamton: Tracking Strawberry Evolution
In the summer of 2015, Adam Session was a postdoc working at the DOE Joint Genome … also holds a joint appointment with the University of California, Berkeley. Nowadays, Session is an Assistant … “autopolyploids”, genome duplication occurs within a single species. By contrast, “allopolyploids” arise when different …
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How Maize Makes An Antibiotic Cocktail
Maize produces a family of compounds that protects it against … revealed that just a handful of enzymes are needed to transform zealexins and related precursors into a bonanza of diverse structures. The Impact Zealexins belong to a class of …
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Inspiring STEM Careers Through a Hands-on Everglades Microbiome Study
Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida … provides the only known reference microbiome data sets for the Loxahatchee Refuge,  was published in the journal  … able to tell the students that the paper was accepted for publication in a reputable scientific journal. It was …
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Nitrosococcus watsonii sp. nov., a new species of marine obligate ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria that is not omnipresent in the world's oceans: calls to validate the names ‘Nitrosococcus halophilus’ and ‘Nitrosomonas mobilis’
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