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… products is that we don’t know what all the biosynthetic gene clusters look like. DAN: For sure. MARCY: We have so … much information about what the Actinomycete biosynthetic gene clusters look like. And we’re just getting to where … finding the molecules so then we can tie them back to the gene clusters right? The more Info we have the more Info we …
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… and the microalga, Asterochloris glomerata . To see how gene expression changes when living together versus apart, … of the results were unexpected. For example, lichenologists generally anticipated that in this symbiosis going back hundreds of millions of years, accidental gene swaps via horizontal gene transfer would have occurred …
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… that produces those. So it’s not a hard and fast rule, but, generally, animals do not have secondary metabolism that we … It’s an evolution of primary metabolism. So a lot of the genes and the DNA that’s used for secondary metabolism, they … point? DAN: Yeah, I’m glad you asked. One of the earliest predictions about the use of antibiotics is that eventually, …
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… are at the core of many environmental processes, and the genetic makeup of microbial species and communities forms …
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