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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a number of notable … challenges, characterizing viruses is a key step. For decades, though, many viruses have been somewhat … light on another key aspect of viruses in the environment — their sheer genetic diversity. As pioneers of this field, …

For the first time, a team has comprehensively described … Another wrinkle in the mystery is that viruses can affect their prey in different ways. They have the capacity to kill … team discovered that the mat’s viruses specialize to single hosts, and instead of lysing them, which appears to be …

Clarence is an affiliate researcher who identifies and analyzes novel clades of RNA viruses and determines novel viral gene functions that may impact hosts and host populations. …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US Department of Energy Joint … so secondary metabolism is throughout nature, except maybe for animals and humans, not as much. You know, we have this … something that’s, it could be a molecule that’s embedded in their – what do you call that – I want to say like lipid …

… … Dan Udwary: Hey, Alison Takemura: Hey, Dan. Dan Udwary: Today … I think it must’ve been about 2001, maybe, and so it was before smartphones and before laptops and everything. And I … diversity, the sheer number of chemicals they produce, their ability to evolve, to go with horizontal gene transfer …