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This shorter episode is about a tiny, single-celled alga – Chlamydomonas reinhardtii – that’s managed to have a … biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – …

The US Department of Energy’s favorite tree is poplar. They’re the fastest growing trees in the Northern Hemisphere, making them tantalizing …

… products field as it relates to structure elucidation and genome mining, and how we might start to better connect … that experience was the chance to see what the industrial life was like. And I think I learned that I’m more of an … about the topic we cared about. And that gave us about 12,000 molecules. And that was enough for us to build a …

… a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership more clearly. The … For the first time, a team has analyzed in parallel the genomes and transcriptomes of both partners to better … them to close relatives who don’t engage in the lichen lifestyle. The team’s results appear in  BMC Genomics . To …

… phages.  Current Opinion in Virology .  49 , 117-126 Berg, M. and Roux, S. (2021) Extreme dimensions — how … across Earth’s biomes. Nature Microbiology. 4 , 1895–1906 Roux, S. et al. (2019) Minimum Information about an Uncultivated Virus Genome (MIUViG).  Nature Biotech .  37 , 29–37 Roux S, et …

… anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science Interested in the genomes of algae? You now have one place where you can … useful for scientific inquiry: it shows a full phylogenetic tree of more than 100 sequenced algal genomes — many …

… summary above^ as well ] The Science The recipe for growing algae as a source of sustainable biofuels seems fairly … multiple institutions have sequenced and analyzed the genome of an alga that thrives in saltwater (halotolerant) … U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. …