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Marchantia Pangenome Highlights Adaptive Nature of Plant Lineages
Understanding the shared genetic toolkit of ancestral and … angiosperms, suggesting they are evolutionarily conserved across plant lineages. They hypothesized that certain gene … framework provided by these high quality reference genome sequences could help researchers better understand related …
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Recent Activity in Expanding Populations and Purifying Selection Have Shaped Transposable Element Landscapes across Natural Accessions of the Mediterranean Grass Brachypodium distachyon
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Viruses Reprogram Cells into Different Virocells
Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic … from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … initiative through an award to MBD and MBS (#2582) and used resources at the DOE Joint Genome Institute and the …
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JGIota: Looking Back at How Cow Rumen Samples Landed on a Syllabus
Back in 2011, JGI-supported researchers published a paper in … microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource experience. Hear …
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Scaling Up Existing Skill Sets
Over the course of the summer, the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship paired six UC Merced students with seven JGI researchers for bioinformatics internship opportunities in …
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2022 Progress Report
Pictured is a timelapse of the Integrative Genomics Building (IGB) seen above … Area are also co-located in the IGB. Vision The vision of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …
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Variation in Adult Plant Phenotypes and Partitioning among Seed and Stem-Borne Roots across Brachypodium distachyon Accessions to Exploit in Breeding Cereals for Well-Watered and Drought Environments  
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Defining the Sphagnum Core Microbiome across the North American Continent Reveals a Central Role for Diazotrophic Methanotrophs in the Nitrogen and Carbon Cycles of Boreal Peatland Ecosystems
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Extracting the Secrets of Secondary Metabolites
CRAGE-CRISPR combo helps further demystify biosynthetic gene … survival, may now be easier to characterize following a proof-of-concept study in which researchers paired CRISPR and … historically been limited due to the lack of robust tools available for carrying CRISPR into microorganisms. CRAGE …
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
Researchers start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science … in order to get  M. elongata and  I. europaea  genomes sequenced and annotated for this study. The team found that, …
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2025 NeLLi Symposium
Registration and Agenda Coming Soon!  Hosted by the DOE Joint Genome Institute, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and the Desert Research Institute, the … metabolic and functional capabilities. Take part in the "Sequences to Cultures" Jamboree!  Immediately following the …
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Tracking the Origins of Methane-Producing Microbes
Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal Methane … archaea are estimated to produce 500 million tons of methane a year, which is over half the total global … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …
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