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… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … viruses outnumber them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are … can thus have significant impacts on the global nutrient cycles regulated by their hosts. For example, microbes that …

… data set will help identify how different elements of the ecosystem interact and respond to changes in the … on the rhizosphere and interactions between the trees, microbes and soil chemistry offers insights into how these ecosystems cycle nutrients like nitrogen and carbon, as well as …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” morphology, this means … microbes to adapt to changing environments. It also sheds light on why the rapid injection of mutations in a …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … interactions? Do generalist viruses run rampant, capable of infecting different host species? Or, do they tend to … the mat’s viruses specialize to single hosts, and instead of lysing them, which appears to be prevalent in marine …