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… committee recognized Woyke as a pioneer in uncovering the hidden diversity of “microbial dark matter”–that uncultured …

… identify mobile genetic elements like plasmids and viruses. The Science Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) are … from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of … that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive …

This series is the story of a giant metagenome assembly from Wisconsin’s Lake Mendota. In …

…   To understand virus-host dynamics, computation helps fill in what cultivation can’t. The Science At first, viruses are merely toolkits. To do anything, they must find … not just any host will do. It must be a specific host the virus has adapted to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, …

Virophages are small viruses with double-stranded DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Virophages are small viruses with … DNA genomes that co-infect eukaryotic cells along with giant viruses. Almost all known virophage genomes share only …