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… to the global carbon cycle. Archaea are key players in this deep biosphere. They have adapted to acquire carbon … all operate in concert to form the foundation of this deep Earth ecosystem. For example, when certain viruses …

… functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny ocean-dwellers called phytoplankton play an outsize role in … of the essential trace metal zinc, compared to other oceans. That zinc turns out to be extremely important for … evolve to colder temperatures characteristic for polar oceans. In this study, they’ve cracked open the genome of …

… of microbial ecosystems at the forest floor and along ocean shores. Their results could bring key insights into …

… astronomical figure, and yet viruses outnumber them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% … For example, microbes that capture and store carbon in the ocean could fix less carbon when infected. Little is known … Foundation Investigator Award (#3790) and an NSF Biological Oceanography award (#1536989) to MBS, University of Michigan …

… (IMG/M) suite, as well as sequences from the Global Ocean Virome 2.0 dataset based on open ocean samples. CheckV identified a total of 44,652 complete …

… to thrive outside aquatic environments. The Impact A deeper understanding of how plants adapted to terrestrial … and the ability to adapt to different environments were deeply rooted in the common ancestor of algae and land …

… all based on antiSMASH results. And so if you want to do deeper analysis on things, then you’re staying in the “BiG” … This episode should make a nice jumping-off point into the deeper end of genome mining after the Genome Mining Primer …

… a lab environment, shining a light into this “biological dark matter.”  It also offers CRISPR a point of entry. By …

… working with researchers from the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Microbial Genome Program head Tanja Woyke of …