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… unknown microbes that play critical roles in environmental processes (related to interactions of soil-sediment … consequences of microbe-microbe interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and … dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate symbiont’s genome is often reduced …

… industrial facilities will need large-scale approaches to processing plant biomass. Here, cud-chewers like goats, … an important talent. In their herbivorous lives, they all process loads of tough plants. Thanks to gut microbes — … microbes, each potentially contributing to powerful biomass processing. “So if you peer inside a poop sample, or a rumen …

… of scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science User … through the publicly available  Integrated Microbial Genomes & Microbiomes (IMG/M) database, they successfully … microbial species within a community. Therefore, the process hinges on referencing to existing genome sequences.  …