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… cellular phenotypes and genotypes. Pawlowska, who studies fungal-bacterial symbiotic systems, noted that she would … ecological and evolutionary factors shaping the assembly of fungal endophytes across land plants and lichens, mentioned …

… collaborators and other scientific organizations. Fungal biologist Stajich from UC Riverside sees the JGI’s …

… snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, by piecing each genome together from large mixtures of genomic sequences. A complementary approach to this is single cell … are first separated, and their genomes then amplified and sequenced individually, offering scientists the opportunity …

… than previously suspected. “That would cause significant consequences on the entire food web, and therefore ecosystem … After isolating the algal communities on filters, they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the … properties,” said study coauthor Igor Grigoriev , JGI Fungal & Algal Program Head. “But still, there are no …

Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, unlike pathogenic or mycorrhizal fungi (mutualist symbionts that …

… genomic biodiversity. Using publicly available genome sequence data generated over the past three decades, their … group. “Turns out that despite all the genomes we've sequenced, we've only scratched the surface.” The study, … a census of publicly available bacterial and archaeal sequences. Kyrpides heads the JGI’s Microbiome Data Science …

Cas9 needs guide RNA to lead it to the correct sequence to snip — but not all guides are effective. To … approach: CRISPR-Cas9 relies on RNA with a short guiding sequence (20 bp) that directs the endonuclease where to cut, … , the scientists thus set out to identify which sgRNA sequences were reliable. In an elegant, quantitative screen, …