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… deep subsurface ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in … below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical … researchers are using Altiarchaea as a model system to study virus-host interactions. Approximately 150 archaeal …

… a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the way for future plants and trees … genes with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest … which take inventory of which microbes are present. This study, published in Nature Microbiology , went a step …

… over the last  25-plus years since the JGI’s inception, making it possible for researchers to get a close look … to enable large-scale analysis. The story of a massive metagenome assembly for a time-series experiment from the … freshwater ecosystem works. When she set out to analyze 500 metagenomes from this sample set through the Community …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … technologies applied to the effort. The Impact Found on all continents, including Antarctica where it is a major … four times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the study first author Carey put it, these sex chromosomes first …

… comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes Program since 2011. Prior to joining the DOE … at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Argonne National Laboratory. Dr. Kyrpides’ research focus on …