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… to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities living in extreme conditions. The … show the ability to respire with or without oxygen, fix nitrogen, and break down organic and inorganic compounds. … diverse metabolic capabilities offer insights into how microbial processes might be harnessed for applications …

… comparable study, where plants were subjected to three nitrogen sources (urea, ammonium, and nitrate) as the sole nitrogen source. We looked at the plant’s response in the … observed that treatment with nitrate versus urea showed nitrogen and amino acid-specific metabolic pathways were …

… and genomic features of this giant filamentous bacterium, along with its life cycle. For most bacteria, their DNA … and their microbiomes are important ecosystems for carbon cycling . If you look at the space that they occupy on a … in coastal sediments,” said Woyke, who also heads the JGI’s Microbial Program and is one of the article’s senior …

… Microbial contributions to soil carbon storage during …

… that reveals in situ functional activities of specific microbial groups within complex communities.  The Microscale … D. et al. 2016. SAR11 bacteria linked to ocean anoxia and nitrogen loss. Nature 536 (7615), 179 Hatzenpichler, R. et …

… adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial communities in Antarctic lakes, some of which have … haloarchaea and the structure and extent of the Antarctic microbial pan-genome. Since these microbes thrive under … the parts of the genome shared across all haloarchaea, along with the pool of genes considered the flexible genome …