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Evolution of a multi‐step phosphorelay signal transduction system in Ensifer: recruitment of the sigma factor RpoN and a novel enhancer‐binding protein triggers acid‐activated gene expression
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Fine-scale evaluation of two standard 16S rRNA gene amplicon primer pairs for analysis of total prokaryotes and archaeal nitrifiers in differently managed soils
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A Synthetic Gene Library Yields a Previously Unknown Glycoside Phosphorylase That Degrades and Assembles Poly-β-1,3-GlcNAc, Completing the Suite of β‑Linked GlcNAc Polysaccharides
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Supercharging Carbohydrate Binding Module Alone Enhances Endocellulase Thermostability, Binding, and Activity on Cellulosic Biomass
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JGI announces second round of 2023 New Investigator awardees
… call under our Community Science Program .  Below find a list of the second round of researchers accepted for …
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How Filamentous Fungi Sense Food
… the activity, expression and regulation of protein-coding genes. This first paper integrating multi-omics data from …
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Analyses of expressed sequence tags from the maize foliar pathogen Cercospora zeae-maydis identify novel genes expressed during vegetative, infectious, and reproductive growth
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Engagement Webinar: Accessing NEON’s Environmental Sample Archives, Applying JGI & EMSL Omics Tools
Postdocs are also welcome to apply to the FICUS program. Find out more about the FICUS program at:  … website, social media, and newsletter. Q:  How would people find out about the NEON Sample Protocols? A:  Go to the  …
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Green Algae Reveal One mRNA Encodes Many Proteins
… examples of polycistronic expression – in which two or more genes are encoded on a single molecule of mRNA – in two … and Chromochloris zofingiensis . “I was scrutinizing the genes of one of our species of algae and kept seeing what … gene prediction algorithms. I decided to dig in a little deeper, and realized what was really happening,” recalled …
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Taking Stock of the Known and Unknown Microbial Space
… to curate and cultivate what is still unknown.  “We took a deep dive into over 1.8 million bacterial and archaeal … they used five universally conserved, protein-coding marker genes on nearly 2 million genomes, including isolates, …
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Fungal Friends or Foes in Plant Roots
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). Their findings were described in a recent Nature Communications … genomes on the JGI data portal MycoCosm . They looked for genes known to be involved in fungal-host interactions and … DE-AC02-05CH11231 within the framework of CSP 1974 “1KFG: Deep-sequencing of ecologically relevant Dikaria”. This work …
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The genome of Polaromonas naphthalenivorans strain CJ2, isolated from coal tar‐contaminated sediment, reveals physiological and metabolic versatility and evolution through extensive horizontal gene transfer
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