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… its history. Their research, published in August 2023 in Nature Plants , was able to assess absolute time estimates … able to spread quickly and establish itself in a variety of new environments. This all started roughly 250,000 years … event, doubling all of its chromosomes. Over time, the new and old chromosome copies begin to diverge and mutate …
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… to energy, are made up heavily of sphagnum mosses. New research identifies sex chromosomes in the plant and … National Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum genomes from plants selected by a team from Duke University, …
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A former JGI intern is now applying his internship lessons on … of biology and computer science, to reveal clues about how microbial and bacteria communities influence the … mediate Sphagnum peatmoss resilience to warming . New Phytol. 2022 Jun;234(6):2111-2125. doi: …
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DNA floats freely within the cytoplasm of their cells. This newly discovered species of bacteria keeps its DNA more … in coastal sediments,” said Woyke, who also heads the JGI’s Microbial Program and is one of the article’s senior … level. They amplified, sequenced and assembled the genomes. In parallel, Gros’ lab also used a labeling …
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… part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in microbial oil production. The Science CRISPR-Cas9 is a … and xylose — into fatty acids that could be used for renewable fuel. In fact, lipids can make up more than 90 … Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Program ( DGE-1110007 ). SA, AB, and MB were supported by NSF 1706134 . SL …
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… snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses spread …
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