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… from marine heatwave event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of … predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a …

… hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet exceptionally small, with mini genomes to match. As a result, they … and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but these symbiotic interactions … in other cases, they likely help their hosts. The Impact Meters below the Earth’s surface, within the crust, …

A nuanced understanding of peat moss drives insight into carbon storage   The Science Boggy peatlands, which hold much of … the moss grows, stores carbon and responds to stress. The Impact Despite constituting less than 5% of land on Earth, … wetlands produces an estimated 5% of annual greenhouse gas emissions. Understanding how sphagnum, a primary …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The … allowing these viruses to target new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much more comprehensive …

… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … a (microbial) community to clean up a Superfund site. The Impact The Comprehensive Environmental Response, … to bioremediation efforts for decades. Identifying resident microbes that can help bioremediate toxic substances has led …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At … to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic … match viruses with their archaea and bacteria hosts. The Impact Within the domains of archaea and bacteria, millions …

… for capturing the genetic make-up of specific uncultivated microbes from complex environmental samples. The Science A team led by researchers at … efficiently retrieve and characterize their genomes. The Impact Despite great strides in generating genome sequences …