Results

Fine-scale evaluation of two standard 16S rRNA gene amplicon primer pairs for analysis of total prokaryotes and archaeal nitrifiers in differently managed soils
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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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Advances on genomics, biology, ecology and evolution of Brachypodium, a bridging model grass system for cereals and biofuel grasses
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Whole genome comparisons of Fragaria, Prunus and Malus reveal different modes of evolution between Rosaceous subfamilies
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Evolution of novel wood decay mechanisms in Agaricales revealed by the genome sequences of Fistulina hepatica and Cylindrobasidium torrendii
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Insights into the Evolution of Mitochondrial Genome Size from Complete Sequences of Citrullus lanatus and Cucurbita pepo (Cucurbitaceae)
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Rapid selective sweep of pre-existing polymorphisms and slow fixation of new mutations in experimental evolution of Desulfovibrio vulgaris
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Genome‐wide association studies and expression‐based quantitative trait loci analyses reveal roles of HCT2 in caffeoylquinic acid biosynthesis and its regulation by defense‐responsive transcription factors in Populus
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2025 NeLLi Symposium
Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … of the Tree of Life and latest discoveries toward the evolution of cellular complexity and microbial symbiosis.  … to a new appreciation for the extent of diversity. The phylogenetic and functional characterization of this novel …
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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. … assembly from Lake Mendota. In this episode: the software evolution that made metagenome assemblies like this possible. …
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Scaling Up Existing Skill Sets
Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics … interactions to functional genomics. Hear from five of the Summer 2019 interns, who briefly shared their … graduate student Mentors: Igor Grigoriev and Asaf Salamov, Fungal and Algal Program What effect has your summer …
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The Expanding Universe of Methane Metabolisms in Archaea
… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key … of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of methanogenesis and the presence of methanogens in nearly all types … important to understand early life, but also to link the evolution of this metabolism to geochemical data, which in …
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