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… that were missed within paired metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs), and that dominant populations varied with … of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … are often less diverse than those within more moderate ecosystems. A few years ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was …

… The Science Eelgrass, one of the most abundant plants in the ocean, originated in Japan before spreading around … However, eelgrass didn’t have a reliable calibration tool in the form of another species, so the scientists had … — including the eelgrass genome assembly that enabled analysis of the whole genome duplication event — …

… characteristics. When they tested the screen method on a microbial community from geothermal hot springs, they … learn more about what microbes are present in any given ecosystem—particularly those that are in low abundances—and … To validate the predicted cellulases from their captured genomes, the team then used DNA synthesis and cloning, …

… Tanja Woyke and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — … with an email in 2018.  Tanja Woyke , who leads the  Microbial Program at the JGI, received a message from Andrea … move toward characterizing the human microbiome  by its genomes and metagenome , rather than just by 16S ribosomal …