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Microbial communities associated with sympagic and planktonic habitats during a polar vortex influencing the North American Great Lakes Basin
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Plotting a Model for Virus-Host Warfare Deep Below Ground
… and dominant populations in oxygen-poor environments without oxygen deep below ground. These archaea fix carbon … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … the virions out and moving the carbon within the microbial community. These findings also suggest that lytic viruses …
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Improving the Cacao Genome and Phytozome
… Global chocolate brands can’t exist without cocoa According to the  International Cocoa … for comparative purposes on the latest version of the JGI plant portal Phytozome at  phytozome-next.JGI.doe.gov . … systemic orthology to enable use for both cacao functional biology and breeding.     …
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Tanja Woyke Elected to American Academy of Microbiology
… Congratulations to the JGI’s Tanja Woyke , who has been elected to the American … have scientists of Dr. Woyke’s caliber support the JGI User community in accessing our resources and help them to push … the boundaries of energy and environmental genomics.” Along with Woyke, two JGI users were also elected to the AAM: …
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An Inside Look at How Plants and Mycorrhizal Fungi Cooperate
… carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks with less fertilizer. For millions of years, underground … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … work. Former JGI postdoctoral scholar Margot Bezrutczyk collaborated extensively with Cole and Serrano to collect …
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John Vogel
… Dr. Vogel joined JGI in 2014 to establish a plant functional genomics … switchgrass transformation pipeline and, in collaboration with industrial partners, generated hundreds of transgenic … his postdoctoral studies at the Carnegie Institution for Science where he studied the molecular basis of a plant …
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A Synthetic Gene Library Yields a Previously Unknown Glycoside Phosphorylase That Degrades and Assembles Poly-β-1,3-GlcNAc, Completing the Suite of β‑Linked GlcNAc Polysaccharides
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The More the Merrier: Making the Case for Plant Pan-genomes
… plants abide by the concept, “the more the merrier,” with respect to their genomes. In their base state, they are … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … Context For the study, partly enabled by the JGI’s  Community Science Program , the team generated reference …
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Long-term excess nitrogen fertilizer increases sensitivity of soil microbial community to seasonal change revealed by ecological network and metagenome analyses
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Metagenomic and Metatranscriptomic Analyses Reveal the Structure and Dynamics of a Dechlorinating Community Containing Dehalococcoides mccartyi and Corrinoid-Providing Microorganisms under Cobalamin-Limited Conditions
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The Case for Conservation
… “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, high-quality reference genome … to evolve so rapidly in gene content and structure. He and JGI Plant Program head Jeremy Schmutz already see how …
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Pinning Down a Piece of Photosynthesis
… pin down.  Photosynthesis appears to have a lot in common with a Rube Goldberg machine: surprising dependencies, … the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User Facility located at … so much detail on this structure, Grosjean and Blaby-Haas collaborated with a range of researchers across the Albert …
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