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Draft genome and description of Consotaella salsifontis gen. nov. sp. nov., a halophilic, free-living, nitrogen-fixing alphaproteobacterium isolated from an ancient terrestrial saline spring
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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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Tanja Woyke
After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products … Nature Communications, Nature Protocols, Nature Reviews Genetics, ISME J, Nucleic Acids Research, DOE Small Business …
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Marianne Buscaglia
… researcher who uses metagenomics to study giant viruses in cold marine environments and is interested in analyzing genes that can impact the metabolism of their hosts. …
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Trent Northen
… is currently a Senior Staff Scientist at Berkeley Lab. Since joining Berkeley Lab in 2008, Dr. Northen has had leadership … Genome Engineering Enables Rapid Activation of Biosynthetic Gene Clusters. Nat Microbiol. 4(12):2498-2510. doi: …
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Complete genome sequence of the thermophilic, hydrogen-oxidizing Bacillus tusciae type strain (T2T) and reclassification in the new genus, Kyrpidia gen. nov. as Kyrpidia tusciae comb. nov. and emendation of the family Alicyclobacillaceae da Costa and
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Fields of Breeders’ Dreams: A Team Effort Toward Targeted Crop Improvements
… around the country recognize that crop varieties grow best in certain regions. Most plant species have adapted to their … to customize the crop for additional end products. The genetic diversity within this set of plants, each with a … genome, and these gardens allow researchers to test what genes affect the plant’s adaptability to various …
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JGI@25: Cow Rumen and the Early Days of Metagenomics
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … environmental samples — to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. These genes were identified based on their potential to …
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Better Crops With a Pointillist Approach to Plant Genomics
In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get nutrients, weather drought, and …
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The Expanding Universe of Methane Metabolisms in Archaea
Metagenome-assembled archaeal genomes provide new insights into an ancient metabolism. Methane is a greenhouse … of the Institut Pasteur in France, the importance of methanogenesis and the presence of methanogens in nearly all types … well as tools for analysis. “There is evidence that methanogenesis is one of the oldest metabolisms, with the first …
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Finding the Fermenters
Harnessing BER-funded data resources, researchers built an … at the University of California, Davis and UC Santa Barbara generated a list of prokaryotes with fermentative metabolism … IMG data portals to get information about the genomes and genes of the organisms on the list. They also searched IMG/M …
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JGI-UC Merced Interns Share Their 2021 Experiences
During the summer of 2021, 13 interns from UC Merced spent eight weeks working virtually … Clustering Scalable … Cataloging Lineage Specific Conserved Genes in Giant Viruses … Pan-genome Graphs: Approaches for …
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