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Microbial species and intraspecies units exist and are maintained by ecological cohesiveness coupled to high homologous recombination
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The molecular dimension of microbial species: 3. Comparative genomics of Synechococcus strains with different light responses and in situ diel transcription patterns of associated putative ecotypes in the Mushroom Spring microbial mat
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Calculating the Costs of Multiple Switchgrass Gene Copies
… led by researchers at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology … its habitat range, but at what cost? In the following guest piece, postdoctoral researcher Joseph Napier from the … occurring ploidy levels, called cytotypes, across the species. These are primarily tetraploids (4X or four copies …
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Inspiring STEM Careers Through a Hands-on Everglades Microbiome Study
Journal publication caps JGI pilot project with fledgling Florida high school scientists. The Florida Everglades … the latest molecular techniques to learn more about the microbial communities in the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …
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Large‐scale cultivation of the bumblebee gut microbiota reveals an underestimated bacterial species diversity capable of pathogen inhibition
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Igor Grigoriev
Dr. Grigoriev joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2003, following his … National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He … Haitjema et al (2017) A parts list for fungal cellulosomes revealed by comparative genomics.  Nature Microbio 2:17087. …
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Getting to the Bottom of Fungal Functions Across Earth’s Forests
… between fungal guilds, genes and function. If a tree falls in the forest — whether or not anyone registers the sound — … lots of fungi around. Within a forest’s soil, hundreds of species decompose debris, mobilize nutrients from that … fungal metatranscriptome yet,” said Igor Grigoriev, Fungal Genomics Program Head at the JGI.  Along with an improved …
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Decoding Yellowstone’s Microbial Mats
Life as we know it wouldn’t exist without cyanobacteria; they began oxygenating Earth over two billion years ago. A team of researchers … Park to study how cyanobacteria are living, communally, in microbial mats. Along the way, they’ve encountered …
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Evolution and comparative genomics of the most common Trichoderma species
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Anoxic carbon flux in photosynthetic microbial mats as revealed by metatranscriptomics
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Green Algae Reveal One mRNA Encodes Many Proteins
Gene expression in eukaryotes was long held to be monocistronic – that is, a … genes are encoded on a single molecule of mRNA – in two species of green algae, Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and … Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE missions related to clean energy …
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Olpidium, The Key to the Origin of Terrestrial Fungi
… for every family of fungi. In the following guest piece, JGI user Ying Chang in the Spatafora lab describes … weakly. Further investigation on the source of controversy revealed that the branches among Olpidium and the first few … known fossil record of land plants and evolved in early microbial biocrust environments.     … The U.S. Department …
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