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… in the next generation of flowering vegetation. In return for their services, bees eat plant nectar and pollen. Nectar … two polysaccharides can yield sugar monomers, it’s only with the aid of specialized bacterial enzymes. Honey bees … down hemicellulose. The authors think this might have to do with the differences in lifestyle: honey bees need ample …

… to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done before to look at how multiple forest fungi have independently evolved to establish symbiotic relationships with plants (mycorrhizae), and particularly how fungi that … species include 29 newly-sequenced mycorrhizal genomes. With so many fungal  genomes , the team conducted a …

For the first time in several years, the DOE Joint Genome … for the JGI-UC Merced Internship Program was brimming with excitement and determination as they came onsite. From … to science communications, their schedules were filled with trainings that they later reported were incredibly …

… compounds shared by most living creatures for energy, growth and reproduction—most organisms produce a … an interactive public database for the research community. With more than 13 million BGCs in the catalog at the time of … for users to publicly engage with each other, share annotations and collaborate on solutions.  Compared with …

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… living near hydrothermal deep-sea vents hold vast potential for bioenergy.   The Science Hydrothermal vents are … seeps through cracks in the Earth’s crust and reacts with very hot rocks below, becoming an extremely hot, … and functioning of a given microbial community. Scientists with the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a …

… approaches including amplicon and metagenomic sequencing. For example, they showed that the composition of the … cells harbored mobile genetic elements that were missed within paired metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs), and that dominant populations varied with respect to the amount of within species recombination, …

… sequencing, new sequencing technologies, and related informatics; overview of the scientific programs at the JGI; … Proposal Study Panel on prioritization of CSP projects and, with concurrence from the DOE Office of Biological and … Research (BER) program, set the final sequence allocation for this program. …

… is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, for the first time, seen in a plant. The Science Sex in … , employ the evolutionary strategy we are far more familiar with: differentiating into male and female sexes. For the … the sex chromosomes of shrub willow have been sequenced with sufficient resolution to analyze their structure. …