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… too. DAN UDWARY: Oh, yeah. ALISON TAKEMURA: My big headphones. DAN UDWARY: I’m sitting on my bed in Paris, pointing a … I get that, too, so. But so I’m over sensitive to it sometimes. Well, welcome, Nadine. ALISON TAKEMURA: What is the … see. So it doesn’t seem to be a correlation between biodiversity in taxa and biodiversity in secondary metabolites. …

… circles in some way or another. But today, we have someone who, weirdly, I haven’t, I think, ever been in a room … I’m talking about is called the Convention on Biological Diversity . And there’s something called the Nagoya Protocol … could be used to treat these highly resistant bacterial and fungal pathogens. And we’ve actually just wrapped up a year, …

… aims to encourage innovative research exploiting a diversity of capabilities. Previously, researchers had to … that truly integrated the capabilities of more than one facility. The FICUS initiative not only simplifies and …

… other plant-associated fungi. Their analysis identified fungal gene families that help determine if these fungi act … They play key roles in maintaining the plant’s health and diversity, which can in turn boost yields for both food and … colonize roots by degrading the plant cell wall component pectin. The results therefore predicted that these …

… the pharmaceutical industry. He holds joint appointments as Fungal and Algal Program Head at the JGI, a Senior Scientist … from protists to plants. In 2009, he launched the JGI Fungal Genomics program which resulted in over 2500 fungal genomes in the JGI MycoCosm portal. In 2018, he …

… with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses … 10.9-42.3 Kb. Additionally, the gene counts have similarly gone up from 13-25 to 12-39. “Overall,” the team concluded, “we provide a global analysis of the diversity, distribution, and evolution of virophages.” Lead …

… Machine learning methods were applied on sequenced fungal genomes to classify gene families. The Science As a … to identify data generated in part through the 1000 Fungal Genomes Project, including 55 newly-sequenced … proposals have contributed toward filling gaps on the fungal Tree of Life, including the 1000 Fungal Genomes …

… DAN UDWARY: Hey everyone. Welcome back to Natural Prodcast. This continues the … can it actually turn over? ALISON NARAYAN: So that’s an excellent question. I think that we need enzymes with good … made it onto our list is because we wanted to have diversity. And so we wanted a profile across that protein …

… aspect of viruses in the environment — their sheer genetic diversity. As pioneers of this field, the JGI has leveraged metagenomics to … and grades their quality based on completeness. Along with expanding the viral diversity that IMG/VR features, teams at …

… limits, and instructions.  Many of the submissions are done using web-based forms.   To view the proposal templates, … submission page , login using your JGI account (create one here if you don’t already have an account) and click the … can be found here . The quality of the starting material is one of the greatest predictors of a successful sequencing …

… on the largest analysis of 5mC distribution across the fungal tree of life to date, involving more than 500 species … development. Summary With the aim of producing at least one reference genome for every family of fungi, the 1000 … User Facility, and others like it, are uncovering the true diversity of the fungal kingdom. The abundance of fungal …