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… with C. richardii The Science Fern genomes are huge, and incredibly complex — making it difficult to grasp a deeper … event that occured some 60 million years ago. Massive gene loss, rampant gene duplications, and even more ancient gene transfers from …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study … interact; beyond bacteria, these samples harbored fungal genomes, including a novel Leotiomycetes species and …

CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene clusters.  The Science Microbial secondary metabolites, … for survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired … is a technique researchers can use to integrate large genetic payloads directly into diverse microbes. Combining …

RIViT-seq technology could speed up associating transcription factors with their target genes. The Science Regulons are a group of genes that can be turned on or off by the same regulatory …

… are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages … viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and … includes  IMG/VR (for Virus)—for the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage …

Dr. Mouncey joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2017 as the fourth … Dr. Mouncey has a long-standing interest in microbial genetics that started with his education and carried forward … effects on dimethyl sulfoxide reductase (dor) gene expression. J Bacteriol. 180:5612-8. … AAAS Fellow (2024) …

Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal RNA gene censuses.  Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh ,  Metagenome Program … researcher Sara Calhoun, data scientist Stephen Mondo, and  Fungal and Algal program lead Igor Grigoriev took readers on …

… and analyzes novel clades of RNA viruses and determines novel viral gene functions that may impact hosts and host populations. …

The 11th cohort of JGI-UC Merced interns pick highlights from their summer experiences. This … here.” Mentor: Lorenzo Aureli Project: “ Exploring the epigenetic basis of pathogenicity in bacteria” Erika Maquiling … Sajeet Haridas & Asaf Salamov Project: “ Improving the JGI fungal mitochondrial annotation pipeline ” Anna Kucherova : …