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Meta-omics survey of [NiFe]-hydrogenase genes fails to capture drastic variations in H2-oxidation activity measured in three soils exposed to H2
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Analysis of the Neurotoxin Complex Genes in Clostridium botulinum A1-A4 and B1 Strains: BoNT/A3, /Ba4 and /B1 Clusters Are Located within Plasmids
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Tanja Woyke
After studying the mechanism of action of antifungal natural products and their … 20: 721 Nayfach et al. 2021. A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature Biotechnology 39, 499-509. Schulz et al. … User Programs … Education … Awards and Service … Selected Publications …
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New Research Finds Flagella in the Terrestrial Roots of Marine Bacteria
Ancient  Chloroflexota s ditched their flagella and other traits when … adaptation to marine environments. These bacteria are so small, it’s possible flagella would be a liability in open … loss of cell walls and a complex pattern of evolution for genes related to eating plant compounds in both the oceanic …
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Two new high-resolution crystal structures of carboxysome pentamer proteins reveal high structural conservation of CcmL orthologs among distantly related cyanobacterial species
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Combating a Global Threat to a Clonal Crop: Banana Black Sigatoka Pathogen Pseudocercospora fijiensis (Synonym Mycosphaerella fijiensis) Genomes Reveal Clues for Disease Control
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Exploring Proteomes of Robust Yarrowia lipolytica Isolates Cultivated in Biomass Hydrolysate Reveals Key Processes Impacting Mixed Sugar Utilization, Lipid Accumulation, and Degradation
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JGI@25: Fueling Investigation into Methane-Making Microbes
In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … all methane emissions to livestock and roughly one-third of human-created methane emissions actually come from livestock … a Genome Insider podcast minisode. To date it is the single largest effort to provide a cataloged and curated culture …
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Better Genome Editing for Bioenergy
A team has optimized a crucial part of CRISPR-Cas9 technology to enable improvements in … tool will make the right cut, researchers created a set of guide RNAs that were effective against 94 percent of the genes in a lipid-prolific yeast. The Impact The team used …
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Restoration of biofuel production levels and increased tolerance under ionic liquid stress is enabled by a mutation in the essential Escherichia coli gene cydC
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The Mutualist Laccaria bicolor Expresses a Core Gene Regulon During the Colonization of Diverse Host Plants and a Variable Regulon to Counteract Host-Specific Defenses.
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A sorghum genome-wide association study (GWAS) identifies a WRKY transcription factor as a candidate gene underlying sugarcane aphid (Melanaphis sacchari) resistance
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