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UC Berkeley plant biologist Sabeeha Merchant explains why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other …

Laboratory, and the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology sequenced sphagnum  genomes from plants selected by a team … and others that preferred the hollows. Those genome sequences showed not only that the sex of a sphagnum plant …

… in doing so enabled the JGI to be the first to publish the sequence analysis of the target chromosomes 5, 16, and 19, … basis of their behavior in the environment.  The JGI genome sequences and metabolomes of microbes and microbial …

… and a unique chronic infection cycle. “We’re not sure why we systematically manage to miss them; maybe it’s due to … first worked on a reference dataset that included genome sequences known to be affiliated with the Inoviridae. “What … to those in typical bacterial or archaeal genomes, the sequence is most likely not an inovirus. But if these nearby …