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… State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant metabolic changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected … which reflects the metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet …

… Laboratory, is using bioinformatics and isotopes to track how viruses influence the flow of carbon in permafrost.  …

… its reproductive machinery The Science To better understand how beneficial organisms (symbionts) are transmitted between … to have evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found … discovered genes that are critical for this process. The Impact In the absence of the Burkholderia endobacteria, the …

… whose livelihoods depend on cotton production, and the crop’s annual economic impact of $500 billion worldwide underscores its value and … because they were so genetically similar.” Benefits of High Impact Science “The results described in this  Nature …

… to integrate large genetic payloads directly into diverse microbes. Combining CRAGE with CRISPR provides researchers … of the biosynthetic gene clusters that produce them. The Impact Secondary metabolites are microbial compounds … that quickly kill the host. Understanding exactly how P. luminescens and its secondary metabolites work could …

… sequence analysis to recover the genomes of uncultivated microbes. We also apply labeling strategies that allow us to select specific uncultivated microbes for sequencing based on their level of metabolic …