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2 unusual facts about Jonathan Eisen


Carboxydothermus hydrogenoformans

According to TIGR evolutionary biologist Jonathan Eisen, "C. hydrogenoformans is one of the fastest-growing microbes that can convert water and carbon monoxide to hydrogen." The microbe owes this to the fact that it has at least five different forms of carbon monoxide dehydrogenase.

Phylogenomics

When Jonathan Eisen originally coined phylogenomics, it applied to prediction of gene function.



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