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… that when salinity is reduced in its environment, this alga reveals a remarkable ability to adapt to stress and rapid … were able to identify specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden drops in salt levels, enabling it … more fresh water — and less salt — near the surface where algae grow. Armed with a better understanding of the alga’s …

… more than 20,000 ascomycete species and hundreds of microalgae are able to partner to form lichens. Studying the … was generally thought to develop clonally. Yet its genome revealed that the alga has all the genes needed for meiosis, … One of their abilities that’s  now getting more scrutiny is how lichen is able to survive drying out to a …

… Science Programs and draw from the infrastructure of Genomic Technologies and Data Science & Informatics. The JGI …

… that might need special technology for DNA sequencing, genomics, metabolomics, and synthetic biology, that maybe … So taxol is a natural product, a cancer drug. It was the largest selling drug back in the early 2000s for cancer. You … turn to synthetic chemists, but Taxol is actually a very large molecule. Very complicated to synthesize. And so …