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Biology article highlights how one microalga collected from water on the ice surface handles such fluctuations. P. … nutrient-poor conditions. It lives in a range of habitats — from brine pockets and melt pools, and within the water … significant stress with a higher proportion of dead cells recorded. Samples were taken again at two, six, 12 and …
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But SAR324 can be found throughout the water column, from the warm, well-lit surface, to the blue-lit twilight … their gene expression, the team then sequenced community genomes and expressed gene transcripts (metagenomes, … metatranscriptomes), as well as the genomes of single cells of the uncultivated SAR324. The constellation …
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… consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and cultivated microbes, … sequenced and assembled by the JGI. From these assemblies, complete or near-complete population genomes were …
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… photosynthesizing organisms called phytoplankton (from the Greek phyto for ‘plant’ and planktos for … in cold, but fecund polar waters. “A lot of our food comes from the North Atlantic, North Pacific and South Pacific … Igor Grigoriev , JGI Fungal & Algal Program Head. “But still, there are no boundaries in the ocean. Yet, what was …
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… the User Support Analysis group. He received his Ph.D. from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and Cambridge … to study genome regulation in human and other vertebrate genomes. When he joined the JGI, he worked as a project … National Lab … Bowers et al. 2024. scMicrobe PTA: Near Complete Genomes from Single Bacterial Cells bioRxiv , …
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… ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating … by the JGI, to uncover these DGRs. DGRs were found in single microbial and viral genomes, as well as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon …
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In this episode, we peer into plant cells. Researchers are using measurements from single cells to understand which genes help plants grow, get …
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… the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led … and then efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in generating … be applied in a number of ways including gathering a more complete view of a population’s genetic makeup and …
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