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… Fungi from herbivore poop make surprisingly complex compounds — an energetically expensive feat … called natural products . Yet, combing through the genomes of four anaerobic fungal species has revealed, for … Swift — verified that the fungi expressed biosynthetic gene clusters, which are “building blocks” of natural …

… Maureen Coleman and Hugh Cross; [Below] Zac Freedman, Martin Jonikas, Lotus Lofgren, Fumito Maruyama, Lauren Stadler, … organisms and ecosystems. Scientists are engineering next-generation feedstocks through CRISPR-edited poplars with … and developing RNA barcoding systems to optimize microbial bioreactors. This genomic research creates new …

… and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets of chromosomes (they are “polyploid”) and their complex genomes are more difficult to sequence and assemble, in turn … in these crops. For diploid species, sequencing programs generally focus on a genotype with two identical sets of …

… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic … infections can affect the interactions within their ecosystems. Summary Microbes drive the energy and nutrient … was done by the JGI, and proteomics and metabolomics analysis and microscopy at EMSL. The team infected the …

… and their biosynthetic logics to be understood, accessing these untapped metabolic capabilities is often tedious … often due to, for example, tight regulation of biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs) in native hosts, the complexity of … a given BGC in various hosts, availability of sequenced genomes, and computing resources needed to predict BGCs from …

… – Jack Gilbert, Ashley Shade, and Jason Stajich! They join six other JGI users already serving on the UEC – go here … aims to help overcome common user bottlenecks in access, analysis and sharing of JGI-generated data. She is also interested in reaching and …

… Data from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers … flux in marine microbial communities. Using the JGI-generated data, Sachia Traving, a former postdoctoral fellow … Research (SCOR), the US Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute, an Office of Science User Facility, …