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JGI Accepts 17 Proposals for Community Science Program
… Monitoring Inter-Organism Interactions Within Ecosystems Latest portfolio of … State University and colleagues are interested in the microbial communities that live on Alaska’s glacially …
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Microbial Community Field Surveys Reveal Abundant Pseudomonas Population in Sorghum Rhizosphere Composed of Many Closely Related Phylotypes
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Linking microbial Sphagnum degradation and acetate mineralization in acidic peat bogs: from global insights to a genome-centric case study
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Position-Specific Metabolic Probing and Metagenomics of Microbial Communities Reveal Conserved Central Carbon Metabolic Network Activities at High Temperatures
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Ecological Dichotomies Arise in Microbial Communities Due to Mixing of Deep Hydrothermal Waters and Atmospheric Gas in a Circumneutral Hot Spring
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Microbial communities associated with sympagic and planktonic habitats during a polar vortex influencing the North American Great Lakes Basin
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Long-term excess nitrogen fertilizer increases sensitivity of soil microbial community to seasonal change revealed by ecological network and metagenome analyses
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High functional diversity among Nitrospira populations that dominate rotating biological contactor microbial communities in a municipal wastewater treatment plant
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An Enzyme Family that Helped Shape Nitrogen Metabolism on Our Planet
… Researchers looked across many organisms to see that aminotransferase enzymes have … as a faculty affiliate in the Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology Division of Lawrence Berkeley National … of these enzymes across 90 species. They queried the genomes of 15 species from each of six kingdoms: eubacteria, …
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Mapping Heat Resistance in Yeasts
… A new approach for improving functional annotation in fungal genomes. The Science In a … phenotype using a strategy called reciprocal hemizygosity analysis via sequencing (RH-Seq). Strains of S. cerevisiae … of the US Department of Energy under contract no. DE-AC02-05CH11231. The work was supported by R01 GM120430-A1. …
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Secrets of the Needles: What Microbes do on Conifer Leaves
… plants, is a comparatively understudied area of forest ecosystems as past studies have mainly focused on … do on the leaf surface. More specifically, they found that microbial community composition and functional potential … analysis of mobile genetic elements across all of the metagenomes. Learn more about her time at the JGI here . Bennett …
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Complete Genome of Oil-Rich Alga Reveals Ideal Platform for Bioengineering
… Streamlined genome with precise gene targeting transforms oil-producing alga into a powerful platform for … precise gene targeting in the genome in the November 2025 issue of The Plant Cell. Auxenochlorella is an … applications. Engineers could manipulate these natural systems to tune gene activity without permanently altering …
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