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… diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single drop of water could outnumber a small city’s … of 100 times the size of what has typically been associated with viruses, while the genomes of large viruses may be only … Schulz explained, makes the host function better under certain conditions, which then helps the virus to …

… CheckV can help researchers assess virus sequence fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, … to recover the genomes of these viruses and associate them with their microbial hosts. However, assembling viral …

… Dongying Wu, a member of the Functional Annotation team within the JGI’s Microbiome Data Science group. “Turns out … global nutrient cycles. The information gained from understanding the interactions between microbes, hosts, and their environments could be applied to multiple research areas including agriculture, biofuels and …

… Describing the largest analysis to date of the modified DNA base … piece of how they regulate their genomes, but is not well understood in fungi. A team of researchers reported on the … considered for bioenergy feedstock development. Summary With the aim of producing at least one reference genome for …

… Novel archaeal lineage found in Yellowstone may have been … and characterized a novel phylum-level lineage of archaea with at least two major subgroups dubbed Marsarchaeota. The … lineages found there and elsewhere provide researchers with insights into the evolution of life on Earth. For …

… — one thing is for sure: there are lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose … in  New Phytologist , researchers have pioneered new understanding of which fungi take on certain functions at … Head at the JGI.  Along with an improved understanding of multiple forest systems, this work sets up protocols and …

… bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better understand how beneficial organisms (symbionts) are … researchers investigated the role that bacteria living within a host (endosymbionts) have on fungal host … by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. …

… Congratulations to Jane Grimwood, who has been appointed the Loretta Purdy Spencer Chair in Genomics at the … group for the JGI Plant Program . Her collaborations with the JGI began soon after the JGI was established to … large-scale multi-institutional JGI projects and resulting publications that Grimwood contributed to include: A 2021 …

… Analysis reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, … monitored and the team plans to continue collecting data to understand the ERD process.  … Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy operated under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH1123. Partial support was …

… that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 years — with many key colonization events in the Atlantic ocean … timeline of eelgrass’s evolution, the study also shows the younger meadows in the Atlantic ocean are much less diverse … 67 million years ago, the ancestor to eelgrass underwent a whole genome duplication event, doubling all of …

… Educational training technologies provide opportunities for students and … for both student and faculty researchers. Aligning with this overarching goal, Myco-Ed is a partnership … skill development while curating reusable microbiome data. Undergraduate educators are partnering with the JGI and …

… In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … challenges. Chlamydomonas is a single-celled alga with a unique place in evolutionary history. Retaining … sequences have been cited in almost one-fourth (23.8%) of publications focused on that specific algae. The reference …