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Iron-rich Microbial Mats’ Main Players: Marsarchaeota
… and elsewhere provide researchers with insights into the evolution of life on Earth. For decades, longtime JGI … the JGI’s Community Science Program , the team used metagenome assemblies, transcriptomes and single amplified genomes from samples collected from several locations to …
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Long-term excess nitrogen fertilizer increases sensitivity of soil microbial community to seasonal change revealed by ecological network and metagenome analyses
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Depth distributions of nitrite reductase (nirK) gene variants reveal spatial dynamics of thaumarchaeal ecotype populations in coastal Monterey Bay
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Multi 'omics comparison reveals metabolome biochemistry, not microbiome composition or gene expression, corresponds to elevated biogeochemical function in the hyporheic zone
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Rumen metagenome and metatranscriptome analyses of low methane yield sheep reveals a Sharpea-enriched microbiome characterised by lactic acid formation and utilisation
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Transposon Mutagenesis Paired with Deep Sequencing of Caulobacter crescentus under Uranium Stress Reveals Genes Essential for Detoxification and Stress Tolerance
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New Microviridae isolated from Sulfitobacter reveals two cosmopolitan subfamilies of single-stranded DNA phages infecting marine and terrestrial Alphaproteobacteria
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JGI Announces 2026 Functional Genomics Recipients
… Ritu Singh, Jiaqi Tan, Claire Willing Each year, the Joint Genome Institute (JGI) accepts proposals for … and omics capabilities to enhance understanding of gene and genome function. Understanding these functions gives …
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Katherine Louie
… drive patterns in rhizosphere microbial community assembly. Nat Microbiol. 2018;3: 470–480. 7. Louie KB, Bowen … Selected Publications …
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High quality draft genome sequence of Brachymonas chironomi AIMA4T (DSM 19884T) isolated from a Chironomus sp. egg mass
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For the Tiniest Archaea, A Genomic Switch of Friend or Foe
… are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of … microorganisms had a close relationship. Then, using metagenomes and metatranscriptomes generated by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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JGI Early Career Researchers Featured in mSystems Special Issue
… years of innovation could look like. In one article, Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … viral diversity has advanced drastically, aided by genome assembly from metagenomes. This is a critical step toward …
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