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In Hot Spring Microbial Mat, Viruses Ride “Piggyback”
… a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of … viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to specialize, infecting just a …
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Natural Prodcast Episode 4: Nancy Keller
… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s … to be history.   I should mention that this is one of several interviews you’ll hear which we recorded at the Society … aflatoxin being a secondary metabolite from an Aspergillus species that is pretty toxic – can cause liver cancer and …
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An Age of CRAGE: Advances in Rapidly Engineering Non-model Bacteria
… ( CRAGE ). CRAGE enables scientists to insert large pieces of DNA (up to 60 kb) in a single step, directly into … Mouncey. Using CRAGE, JGI has established a portfolio of microbial hosts that users can select to be engineered. … different gene deletions in four gammaproteobacterial species, and then removing the editing machinery afterward …
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Effects of Polar Light Cycle on Microbial Food Web
Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the seasons. The Science Light-harvesting bacteria (phototrophs) in Antarctica’s Ace Lake defy the … when it comes to nutrient cycling in polar regions. While microbial populations in other Antarctic lakes and the …
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Notes on the Microbial Diversity of Puerto Nuevo’s Coastline
Puerto Nuevo is a small town along the Baja California coastline in Mexico. While conducting early field studies related … student Sabah Ul-Hasan and alumnus of the JGI-UC Merced Genomics Internship Program, first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal …
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Comparative Genomics of the Ectomycorrhizal Sister Species Rhizopogon vinicolor and Rhizopogon vesiculosus (Basidiomycota: Boletales) Reveals a Divergence of the Mating Type B Locus
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Genomics, Exometabolomics, and Metabolic Probing Reveal Conserved Proteolytic Metabolism of Thermoflexus hugenholtzii and Three Candidate Species From China and Japan
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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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Sequencing wild and cultivated cassava and related species reveals extensive interspecific hybridization and genetic diversity
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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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A One-Stop Shop for Analyzing Algal Genomes
The PhycoCosm data portal allows anyone to freely investigate the genes of more than 100 algae. The Science … sequence and understand. A team of researchers led by Algal Genomics Program lead Igor Grigoriev and data scientist Alan … tools created by JGI researchers, including the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system for …
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