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… team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of … kill outright, replicating so thoroughly that they lyse the cell — a process called lytic infection. But some viruses … only 11 times more abundant than its host. There just don’t seem to be huge lytic infections happening in this mat. The …

… are now getting more complete genomic results from single cells. The Science Studying the  genomes of microorganisms … do not grow easily in the lab. To access the genomes of uncultured  microbes , scientists usually employ two … and evenly covered genomes when tested in human cells. To see if this method could also improve genome recovery in …

A deep dive into microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of … In order to determine the genome structure of SAR324 cells and their gene expression, the team then sequenced … University of Hawaii at Manoa — and colleagues were able to see that SAR324 was made up of four ecologically distinct …

… first sampled the area in summer 2016.  She described the microbial diversity patterns of Puerto Nuevo’s coastal … The microbes in cone snails may be involved in venom activity, which is part of a larger consortium Ul-Hasan has started, known as the Initiative for …

… on the effective management and strategic objectives of the microbial and metagenome programs and report back to them. …

Do metabolic pathways from engineered yeasts still work in cell-free environments? (Spoiler: Yes.) Think of cells as … rate of 0.9 grams per Liter-hour in a system optimized for developing small-scale prototypes. Additionally, the team … produce the small molecules glycerol and itaconic acid to see how the cell-free system allowed them to increase the …

In order to do so, these organisms share space at cellular scale: fungi stretch a network of tendrils called … with each other, without all the noise or other biological activity of the surrounding neighborhood,” said Benjamin … and the mycorrhizal fungi  Rhizophagus irregularis. To see how these organisms cooperate, this team applied  R. …

… that cross the boundaries of the Plant, Fungal, Algal, Microbial, Metagenome, Metabolomics, Secondary Metabolites, …