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… “autopolyploids”, genome duplication occurs within a single species. By contrast, “allopolyploids” arise when different … and the oilseed crop false flax – genomes that have been sequenced by the JGI – and the common strawberry, which is … clearly identifies the four subgenomes based on non-genic sequences.” In his words, the history of the strawberry is …
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… Multi-species assays yield an unprecedented view of plant … akin to trying to chart every electrical connection in a sprawling metropolis — an overwhelming challenge due to … of where those binding sites are in the genome — those sequences are moving around, disappearing and appearing in …
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… find a host, and not just any host will do. It must be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For … kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what … of data points. Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program …
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… - Architecture Blueprint Activity, the BERAC response to the charge on unified data, and the ASCR Future … National Laboratory. Dr. Fagnan has been the Distinguished Speaker at IBM Research in Almaden where she presented work …
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… time. They also discovered more than 6,000 mitochondrial sequences previously unrecognized within existing public … level. Because the annotations are standardized and span the full kingdom, they are well-suited to train machine … learning models that predict biological traits from DNA sequences. The study also confirmed that mitochondrial and …
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… actually started doing when starting the lab. It has been, especially from an early career perspective, been absolutely instrumental in a lot of the work … the researchers will receive a FedEx package with the sequenced, quality controlled population representing the …
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… organisms. Not all bacterial lineages harnessed aerobic respiration when the Cyanobacteria did; contemporaries … science popularizer and communicator (and at one time, the spouse of Lynn Margulis). The information was then used to …
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… could offer benefits to address climate change: pulling atmospheric carbon into soil and boosting biofuel feedstocks … and nutrients. In order to do so, these organisms share space at cellular scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils … understand gene expression: one of the first cross-kingdom spatially-resolved transcriptomics studies to date. This …
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… environmental changes. Researchers were able to identify specific genes that allow the algae to adapt to sudden drops … ice surface handles such fluctuations. P. psychrophila is a species of Pelagophyceae, a microalga shown to thrive in … ecosystems. Researchers studied P. psychrophila’ s stress response by comparing how it responded to being moved to a …
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… (the “chytrids”). A collaborative team led by Joey Spatafora at Oregon State University, Jason Stajich at the … In the following guest piece, JGI user Ying Chang in the Spatafora lab describes the effort that led to the work … of binning methods, we were able to recover Olpidium sequences from the “contaminated” genome data with strong …
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… Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock. … of Energy (DOE). By better understanding how poplar responds to its intimate associations with endophytes — a … in order to get M. elongata and I. europaea genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …
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