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… why she works on this alga, how researchers managed to sequence its genome, and what it has to teach us about other organisms – … in the Environmental Genomics & Systems Biology Division of the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area.] …
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In a special issue of mSystems , out May 14, 2019, JGI researchers are among … Micro-Scale Applications head Rex Malmstrom and Metagenome Program head Emiley Eloe-Fadrosh outline more … recent Nature Communications paper, uncovering giant virus sequences in soil for the first time. A second approach …
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Over 40 percent of the cereal crop’s genes respond to drought stress. The … Laboratory, and the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … conventional food crops. For that reason, its genome was sequenced by the JGI in 2009 and it is considered to be …
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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … Beginning in the early 2000s , these environmental metagenomes began to offer a window into viral existence. Along … from around the world, finding over 125,000 partial and complete viral genomes. That study multiplied the number of …
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Antarctic algae need their vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters … researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … collaboration, in 2017, they published the first genome sequence of a cold-adapted microalga: the diatom …
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… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … lysogeny, they can insinuate themselves inside the host’s genome, living quietly and replicating with their host … National Laboratory, used single-cell sequencing to sequence both a cell’s genome and detect accompanying viral …
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… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … of these methanogenic microorganisms was narrowed to a type of archaea called Euryarchaeota . These ancient, … enabled by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User …
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