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… and met local wildlife (a marmot!) as they’ve sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. … a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those ecosystems work. …

… bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better understand how beneficial … model, researchers also generated the first transcriptomic dataset of sexual reproduction in early fungi and discovered … a host genome (Rm ATCC 52813) as part of the 1000 Fungal Genomes project. As reported in the November 29, 2017 issue …

… Originally conceived as a UC Merced graduate student summer research experience at the JGI, the Genomics Internship Program soon expanded to include undergraduate students. To date, more than 90 UC …

… 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 limiting the use of modern, genomic breeding in …