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… their rumen. There is another climate-minded reason for studying rumen: Livestock live off plant matter, and their rumen are highly capable of breaking down … aim is identifying chemical compounds that could inhibit microbial methane production. Another effort is in using …

Recent study shows eelgrass has been around about 2.5 million years … began colonizing the oceans  about 3 million years ago. The study shows that figure is likely closer to a mere 250,000 … a more detailed timeline of eelgrass’s evolution, the study also shows the younger meadows in the Atlantic ocean …

… genetic microdiversity or core metabolic flexibility? … Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during …

… psychrophila can thrive in changing conditions. A recent study shows that when salinity is reduced in its … can better harness the potential of P. psychrophila . … The study was funded by Natural Sciences and Engineering …

… secrete a lot more things than people do…? Although I don’t study people so maybe I’m wrong. But yeah, I mean, because I …

Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities living in hard-to-reach places that …

… four times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the study first author Carey put it, these sex chromosomes first … Sigma-Xi Grant-In-Aid of Research, and Society for the Study of Evolution Rosemary Grant Award to S.B.C.; NSF …

… issue of Nature Microbiology , they mined the Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database maintained … publicly available metagenome data provided by the other study co-authors, and reconstructed from these 10 … genes for both pathways had never been observed in a single microbial population until now. Ca.   M. washburnensis was …

… cultivation methods along with microscopy and genomics to study endosymbiotic associations within microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding …