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Calculating the Costs of Multiple Switchgrass Gene Copies
A collaborative team led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for … of the genome , which can have pronounced ecological and evolutionary consequences. A previous study conducted by our … could be generating these observed patterns. As many other plant species have natural cytotype variation, we also hoped …
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Conservation of linkage and evolution of developmental function within the Tbx2/3/4/5 subfamily of T-box genes: implications for the origin of vertebrate limbs
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Annotation of the Corymbia terpene synthase gene family shows broad conservation but dynamic evolution of physical clusters relative to Eucalyptus
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Horizontal gene transfer in Histophilus somni and its role in the evolution of pathogenic strain 2336, as determined by comparative genomic analyses
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Cultivation of novel Atribacterota from oil well provides new insight into their diversity, ecology, and evolution in anoxic, carbon-rich environments
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Waiting to Respire
Genomes from uncultivated bacteria offers clues to ancestral bacteria’s energy sources. More … oxygen as a byproduct. The abundance of oxygen shaped the evolution of life on Earth, and led to the development of … ancestor of all five bacterial lineages was an anaerobe revealed that the ancestor of all these groups may have been …
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Whole metagenome sequencing and 16S rRNA gene amplicon analyses reveal the complex microbiome responsible for the success of enhanced in-situ reductive dechlorination (ERD) of a tetrachloroethene-contaminated Superfund site
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Researching and Solving Real-World Problems with the 2023 JGI-UC Merced Interns
Emerald Nash and mentor Jonelle Basso, Experimental Study of Root Colonization by Resident Phages of a Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacterium Graduate Interns … Lavenstein Bendall and mentor Juan C. Villada, Ecology & Evolution of Self-Catalytic Introns across Earth’s …
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Genome analysis of ‘Candidatus Ancillula trichonymphae’, first representative of a deep‐branching clade of Bifidobacteriales, strengthens evidence for convergent evolution in flagellate endosymbionts
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A chromosome‐scale reference genome of trifoliate orange (Poncirus trifoliata) provides insights into disease resistance, cold tolerance and genome evolution in Citrus
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Directed Evolution of Flavin-Dependent Halogenases for Site- and Atroposelective Halogenation of 3‑Aryl-4(3H)‑Quinazolinones via Kinetic or Dynamic Kinetic Resolution
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella … organic matter, or as an endophyte, living between a plant’s root cells. The fungus is almost always found among …
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