Net rate of lateral gene transfer in marine prokaryoplankton
Lateral gene transfer is a major evolutionary process in Bacteria and Archaea. Despite its importance, lateral gene transfer quantification in[…]
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Bioinformatics of Microbial Single Cells
In April 2022, SCGC hosted the first course Bioinformatics of Microbial Single Cells. Read more here.
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More cost-effective SAG sequencing
As of May 2021, we offer new, more cost-effective services for single cell genome sequencing. This was made possible by[…]
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Single cell genomics reveals viruses consumed by marine protists
The predominant model of the role of viruses in the marine trophic web is that of the “viral shunt,” where[…]
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Evolutionary stasis of a deep subsurface microbial lineage
Sulfate-reducing bacteria Candidatus Desulforudis audaxviator (CDA) were originally discovered in deep fracture fluids accessed via South African gold mines and[…]
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Synthase-selective exploration of a tunicate microbiome by activity-guided single-cell genomics
While thousands of environmental metagenomes have been mined for the presence of novel biosynthetic gene clusters, such computational predictions do[…]
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Charting the Complexity of the Marine Microbiome through Single-Cell Genomics
Marine bacteria and archaea play key roles in global biogeochemistry. To improve our understanding of this complex microbiome, we employed[…]
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