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The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 1: Many, Many Mers
… Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the … assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …
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Recent Activity in Expanding Populations and Purifying Selection Have Shaped Transposable Element Landscapes across Natural Accessions of the Mediterranean Grass Brachypodium distachyon
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Fields of Breeders’ Dreams: A Team Effort Toward Targeted Crop Improvements
… Gardeners and farmers around the country recognize that crop … the DOE’s interest in harnessing the crop as a versatile candidate biomass feedstock for producing sustainable … for the DOE candidate feedstock poplar. “You’re collecting natural diversity and you’re planting natural diversity in …
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A Model System for Perennial Grasses
… Panicum hallii genomes offer insights to drought tolerance. … The perennial grass switchgrass ( Panicum virgatum ) is a candidate bioenergy feedstock with a complex genome with … var. filipes (94.8% complete) and resequenced a host of natural collections from across the species range. With …
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Celebrating a Decade of Science through the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program
… 2023 marked a decade since the inception of the flagship … UC Merced Senior Assistant Dean and CFO of the School of Natural Sciences Ernie Costello beamed as he spoke of what … “funding and administrative/faculty support so that they can deliver these programs to our students.”   Following …
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Horizontal gene transfer in Histophilus somni and its role in the evolution of pathogenic strain 2336, as determined by comparative genomic analyses
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Conservation of linkage and evolution of developmental function within the Tbx2/3/4/5 subfamily of T-box genes: implications for the origin of vertebrate limbs
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Annotation of the Corymbia terpene synthase gene family shows broad conservation but dynamic evolution of physical clusters relative to Eucalyptus
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Cultivation of novel Atribacterota from oil well provides new insight into their diversity, ecology, and evolution in anoxic, carbon-rich environments
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UC Merced Interns Reflect on Their JGI Summer Projects
… Over the course of eight weeks this past summer, 10 students from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the … — from implementing new data visualization tools, to using natural language processing techniques to categorize genetic …
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JGI Scientists Pen Genome Watch Articles
… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut … to energy and the environment.” she says. “So, it’s quite a natural fit and a nice complement to the contributions from … Igor Grigoriev took readers on a quick romp through the  evolution and domestication of yeast , a model eukaryote. …
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Waiting to Respire
… Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy … oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … named for Lynn Margulis, the main proponent of the significance of endosymbiosis in evolution of eukaryotes, and …
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