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… and viral BGC sequences. Expansion of the SMC to include fungal, plant, viral, and metagenome data is currently underway. … …

… biological contexts. The program fosters intimate, dynamic interactions, offering an unparalleled platform for …

… cells take three days to make, which is a really exciting jump in the rate of product formation.” This was the first …

… fundamental aspects of fern biology and, more broadly, land plant evolution. Recent findings in Ceratopteris richardii … ancient gene transfers from bacteria have all armed the plant with an array of defense mechanisms. The Impact There … The insertion of transposable elements — also known as “jumping genes” because they can change position within a …

… how they might interact with their hosts, and how those interactions may in turn impact the host communities and … of large and giant viruses to any known virus lineage. “Getting complete, near complete, or partial giant virus …

… percent) metagenomes mined for this study. “We’re simply getting much better at seeing them, which means we can now … itself within a host can lead to beneficial or antagonistic interactions with other co-infecting phages and with the …

… for non-model organisms, modulating microbe-microbe and plant-microbe interactions in various environments to improve crop yield, …

… to terrestrial habitats. The work is part of the JGI’s 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, which aims to provide genomic … genetic material with various origins, ranging from fungi, plants to bacteria. Back in 2011 when these genome and … fungi predate the oldest known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments. …

… the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely … work was our focus on all the kingdoms, including animals, plants, bacteria, archaea and fungi. We thought this kind of … from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, archaea, protist, plant, fungi and animal. This analysis led them to identify …

… in the sequencing and evolutionary analysis of over fifty plant and animal genomes. He currently leads the JGI’s … on understanding the origin, evolution, and diversity of plants and animals by combining computational genome … In addition to this evolutionary focus, his work on plant genomics is targeted towards the development of …