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Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high … school scientists. The Florida Everglades evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer …
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… be a duck. But if the duck gets infected by a virus so that it no longer looks or quacks like one, is it still a … U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … (FICUS) initiative through an award to MBD and MBS (#2582) and used resources at the DOE Joint Genome Institute …
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This is the third and final episode of our series on a giant metagenome assembly from … project. But every part of this project depends on lakewater samples — so this episode is a look at how researchers get these specialized snapshots of a …
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… by viruses. Research in the viral genomics group aims at improving our collective understanding of ecological and evolutionary parameters driving virus:host … communities. This involves both experimental and computational exploration of uncultivated viral diversity, …
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Chloroplast mimic a platform to capture and utilize carbon in a synthetic fixation … (MPI) for Terrestrial Microbiology and the University of Bordeaux have developed a platform that mimics … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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… help improve crop yields. The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single … to evolve so rapidly in gene content and structure. He and JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz already see how …
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… merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are diploids with two genome copies, one from each … plants; at least once during their evolution, the genomes of flowering plants multiply. Over time, plants lose many … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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… in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a single gene makes messenger RNA, which encodes a … a single protein. Recently reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , a team of researchers … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at …
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… feedstock. The Science The fungus Mortierella elongata enjoys a dual lifestyle; it can thrive in the soil as a … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility, through its … managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, under contract DE-AC05-00OR22725 for the DOE. The work conducted by the DOE Joint Genome …
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Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … of UC Berkeley geomicrobiologist Jill Banfield, a longtime JGI collaborator, postdoctoral fellow Paula Matheus …
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… common images in many regions due to more extreme weather events such as heat waves, droughts and floods. The … and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … the overall experimental design, sequenced the RNA from nearly 400 root and leaf samples and helped analyze the …
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