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… allodiploid hybrid of two species, similar to a mule, but that is still able to reproduce asexually through mitosis. … due to its capacity for homologous recombination. Finding that "essential" genes can be deleted opens new engineering … cycle for metabolic engineering. The discovery that Auxenochlorella thrives despite lacking 33 conserved …

… A genetic architecture that is characteristic of the sex chromosomes of mammals is, … architecture with Y chromosomes in mammals: a structure that helps correct deleterious mutations. The Impact Shrub … of sex enables scientists to develop molecular assays that can distinguish males and females even when plants with …

… described in a recent issue of mSystems , scientists found that adding salt to the growth medium caused Streptomyces … toward chemical production — a coordinated response that had never been mapped in this detail before.     The … for chemical production, the study provides a blueprint that engineers can use to design more efficient microbial …

… by providing input on JGI policies and capabilities that affect users. Robinson is a staff scientist at Los … to JGI user programs and help advocate for programs that will support the emerging careers of ERCs. She’s also … interested in developing or improving bioinformatics tools that can help with dataset analysis, as well as how they can …

… body, providing input on JGI policies and practices that support its user community. The breadth of scientific … members of the UEC reflects the diverse research topics that the JGI supports that advance DOE Office of Science Biological and …

… National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). And one of the tools that researchers can apply to study the transcription factors that control how genes are turned on is known as DNA … authors Leo Baumgart and Juna Lee developed two approaches that build upon the DAP-seq technology O’Malley developed. …

… networks can serve as a reservoir for carbon compounds that plants generate from carbon dioxide they take in. In … growing in nutrient-poor fields. “This is one interaction that allows plants to better survive in those … relies on just polyadenylated transcript capture — any RNA that is from eukaryotes — we were able to capture both plant …

… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have evolved mix-and-match … the evolutionary past may hold key insights. The way that plants process nutrients has a rich back story — they rely on enzymes that have been evolving for billions of years. However, …

… as well as tools for analysis. “There is evidence that methanogenesis is one of the oldest metabolisms, with … metabolisms. They also identified a set of 38 marker genes that serve as a core set of genes present in archaea with … belongs to Korarchaeota Drs. Luke McKay and William Inskeep are co-authors on the Borrel et al. study described …