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Examining the Relationship Between the Testate Amoeba Hyalosphenia papilio (Arcellinida, Amoebozoa) and its Associated Intracellular Microalgae Using Molecular and Microscopic Methods
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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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Green Algae Reveal One mRNA Encodes Many Proteins
Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers has found numerous …
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Ian Blaby
Since 2019 Dr. Blaby heads the DNA synthesis platform at the … National Laboratory where he focused on functional genomics of phototrophs. Through this and post-doctoral positions at … Award for Research Excellence … Education … Selected Publications … Awards and Honors …
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An Inside Look at How Plants and Mycorrhizal Fungi Cooperate
A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground … interaction up close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene expression: one of the first cross-kingdom …
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An Inside Look at How Plants and Mycorrhizal Fungi Cooperate
A new view into a symbiosis could offer benefits to address climate … carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground … interaction up close, using RNA sequencing to understand gene expression: one of the first cross-kingdom …
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Sphingomonas palmae sp. nov. and Sphingomonas gellani sp. nov., endophytically associated phyllosphere bacteria isolated from economically important crop plants
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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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You Can Move, But You Can’t Hide
… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software tool  …
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Waiting to Respire
Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … development of multicellular organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria … then used to predict the metabolic strategies applied by a common ancestor to all five lineages. In the lab of UC …
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