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Arboriscoccus pini gen. nov., sp. nov., an endophyte from a pine tree of the class Alphaproteobacteria, emended description of Geminicoccus roseus, and proposal of Geminicoccaceae fam. nov.
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Cold adaptive traits revealed by comparative genomic analysis of the eurypsychrophile Rhodococcus sp. JG3 isolated from high elevation McMurdo Dry Valley permafrost, Antarctica
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High-quality permanent draft genome sequence of Ensifer sp. PC2, isolated from a nitrogen-fixing root nodule of the legume tree (Khejri) native to the Thar Desert of India
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Digging into Microbial Ecosystems Deep Underground
… “Microbes underpin so much of what we see on earth in terms of nutrient cycles and biogeochemical cycles…. Viruses play …
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JGI@25: Roots of a Mutualist Relationship
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and capabilities to enable …
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Making a Lichen Together
For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … Science The humble lichen is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One … them to close relatives who don’t engage in the lichen lifestyle. The team’s results appear in  BMC Genomics . To …
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JGI Scientists Pen Genome Watch Articles
… and other JGI researchers made their debut writing for the Nature Reviews Microbiology column last year — and there’s … more to come in 2020. Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at Lawrence Berkeley …
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JGI Earth Month: Healthy Streams, Nutritious Microbes?
In April 2020, we mark both the 50th celebration of Earth Day on April 22, and DNA Day on April 25. As … 2 billion people on the planet, to you know, within my lifetime, we should hit around nine or 10, which is thought …
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Axel Visel
Programs, he focuses on the development and implementation of strategic initiatives at the JGI. Dr. Visel … in interactions with the scientific community at large. … 2021 LBNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Achievement in …
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JGIota: A Tool to Find the Nomadic Genes that Help Microbes Adapt - geNomad
A quick snippet on Antonio Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As …
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JGIota: The Algae Nicknamed ‘Chlamy’
… a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a big impact. UC Berkeley plant … alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – like plants. [ … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …
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The Megadata of Lake Mendota - Part 1: Many, Many Mers
Lake Mendota sits right next to the University of Wisconsin, Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how the …
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