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Stable Isotope Probing (SIP) is a powerful technique for studying microbial communities. These experiments can show which … reusable, and more insightful, for the future of studying microbial communities.   …

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… as multiple copies across the chromosomes. In a follow-up study , researchers focused on two types of naturally … JGI Annual Meeting, David Lowry talked about a multi-year study his student conducted involving fungal rust pathogen …

… viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be …

… in Fort Collins. He’s part of a JGI-supported project studying the world’s rivers and their microbial communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River … in how general environmental stressors, um, alter microbial biomass and then what the consequences are for the …

… behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

Science group led by Nikos Kyrpides , mining the Integrated Microbial Genomics & Microbiomes (IMG/M) system’s immense … Banfield is a pioneer in metagenomic studies, recovering microbial genomes from biofilm samples at the Richmond Mine … Mountain, CA. Banfield’s observations of the CRISPRs in her microbial sequences piqued Doudna’s interest. As Doudna …

… optimization. Summary Life is all about balance. This study,  recently published in the  Proceedings of the …

… green growth appears on top of farmers’ fields: a microbial community that might be quietly improving the …

… history and perennial lifecycle makes it important to study directly. The large and complex genome of  M. sinensis … is a tetraploid, with four sets of chromosomes; the study showed that these sets descend from two now-extinct … stores nutrients from one growing season to the next. By studying genes that are turned “on” or “off” at different …

… given sigma factor are inferred. Prior to this most recent study, only 12 sigma factors and 200 genes (or 209 sigma … to 399. Two of the 11 sigma factors addressed in the study were found to control more than 100 genes, one of …