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Wetland Sediments Host Diverse Microbial Taxa Capable of Cycling Alcohols
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Microbial functional diversity across biogeochemical provinces in the central Pacific Ocean
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Covariation of hot spring geochemistry with microbial genomic diversity, function, and evolution
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Insights into the action of phylogenetically diverse microbial expansins on the structure of cellulose microfibrils
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Metabolic capacity is maintained despite shifts in microbial diversity in estuary sediments
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A Standardized Synthetic Eucalyptus Transcription Factor and Promoter Panel for Re-engineering Secondary Cell Wall Regulation in Biomass and Bioenergy Crops
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Simon Roux Named 2025 ASM Microbiome Data Prize Awardee
… to US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI) staff scientist Simon Roux , who was recently selected … management best practices that have advanced the microbial sciences. The Prize also recognizes innovative and impactful analysis of microbiome data that has changed our understanding of the microbiome and the microbial …
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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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From Competition to Cooperation
… symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The Science By comparing 135 fungal sequenced genomes, … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley National … of Energy Joint Genome Institute, a DOE Office of Science User Facility, and supported by the Office of …
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Engagement Webinar: Utilizing long-read sequencing for metagenomics and DNA modification detection
… This webinar focused on how the JGI employs single-molecule, long-read DNA sequences to aid with genome assembly and transcriptome analysis of microbial, fungal, and plant research projects.  More … PacBio reads (i.e., reads with very low error rate), so our pipeline performs long-reads-only assemblies and not …
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A Powerful Technique to Study Microbes, Now Easier
… Lab biologist Jennifer Pett-Ridge collaborated with JGI scientists on an ambitious project: to bring in robots to help process experiments that measure microbial activity in soil. Now, the researchers and robots …
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New and Improved: Eucalyptus Reference is Now Accessible
… to support targeted tree breeding for the bioeconomy.   The Science Researchers report a new reference genome for eucalyptus in the July edition of the journal G3 Genes | Genomes | Genetics , with significant … published in 2014 by a team led by University of Pretoria scientists with help from researchers at the DOE Joint …
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