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… forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, paving the … of a recovering soil microbiome provides a window into how to model and track the forest recovery process.  … , and provides a powerful snapshot of what soils across different burn severities look like a year after a fire. It …

… things when it comes to energy cycles — turning biomass into things like ethanol or hydrogen, or solar energy into … higher because it is very hard to have 100 sequences from different locations or habitats that align very well, … majority of these protein families belonged to bacteria and viruses, though 6 million of the sequences evaded …

The Science Most organisms use oxygen to convert food into energy. However, in environments with little or no … the range of bacteria and archaea that rely on this form of metabolism, researchers recently compiled a list of … multiple sources, including the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science …

… mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these … evidence to tie together the evolutionary history of the different types of methanogenesis occurring in the entire …

… of an obligate symbiont—entirely dependent on the other for required nutrients—is genome size. The obligate … growth because they had larger genome sizes and their cells were not observed to associate with host cells. In … along with researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office of Science …