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… biosphere), including the global carbon cycle. The JGI is sequencing large numbers of microbes and microbial … lifestyles found in the Antarctic lakes and offers a genetically-tractable model system that could help … of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate …

In 2009, researchers at the JGI and the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences described a novel technique to access high-quality genomic information using minute quantities of DNA derived from … cell. Several years later, the continuing single cell sequencing collaboration between the JGI and Bigelow Lab led …

… be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses … in all kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding …