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Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The … that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could mutate the … and viral genomes, as well as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon …

DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only four genes in common: major and minor capsid proteins (MCP and … maturation. Recently reported in  Microbiome , researchers from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

… the User Support Analysis group. He received his Ph.D. from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Cambridge … University in 2005, where he studied RNA editing and cancer genetics. Dr. Blow carried out postdoctoral work at LBNL, where he worked on computational and experimental approaches to study genome …