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Coral mucus rapidly induces chemokinesis and genome-wide transcriptional shifts toward early pathogenesis in a bacterial coral pathogen
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The Big Deal About Short Plants
Despite their diminutive stature, “short plants” such as mosses could be uniquely powerful in helping scientists link plant genetic sequences to what they do. But sequencing the genome of one …
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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 evokes images of fanboats skimming over swamps, while alligators peer through the waters … that will help shape all of our futures.” Proposing a Research Experience Benskin wanted to give his high school …
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Gene and transcript abundances of bacterial type III secretion systems from the rumen microbiome are correlated with methane yield in sheep
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IMG-ABC: new features for bacterial secondary metabolism analysis and targeted biosynthetic gene cluster discovery in thousands of microbial genomes
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Genomic Encyclopedia of Bacterial and Archaeal Type Strains, Phase III: the genomes of soil and plant-associated and newly described type strains
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In depth metagenomic analysis in contrasting oil wells reveals syntrophic bacterial and archaeal associations for oil biodegradation in petroleum reservoirs
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UC Merced Interns Reflect on Their JGI Summer Projects
… from UC Merced worked closely with JGI scientists on research projects that contribute to the larger mission of the … develop presentation skills as well as build their network in the field of genomics and scientific research. The topics … remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions, but virtual events and technology enabled a fruitful experience for …
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A Complex Confection Decoded: Sugarcane Reference Genome
… crop without a reference quality genome and now crop researchers can work toward advancing sugarcane biotechnology. The Science Considered the … Community Science Program; in 2018, a monoploid reference sequence of sugarcane was published as a step forward in …
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10 From JGI on the 2019 Highly Cited Researchers List
Reuters, has released their 2019 list of Highly Cited Researchers , which includes 10 affiliated with the JGI . The 2019 list focused … Nature Genetics, the work is part of a long-term project to sequence, annotate and analyze the genomes of more than 300 …
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Boosting Small Molecule Production in Super “Soup”
Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? … As reported August 26, 2021, in Nature Communications , researchers led by Hal Alper at The University of Texas at … senior authors. “But this has been done most commonly in bacterial-based systems, and so one of the things that I …
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Tracking the Origins of Methane-Producing Microbes
Mini-Metagenomics Approach Helps Identify Novel Archaeal … in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers at Stanford University, the Chan Zuckerberg … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …
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