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… how these hosts and hitchhikers coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but … interactions are difficult to study in the lab. Metagenomics provides new views of these relationships.  Recently , researchers used population genomics to find that while archaeal hitchhikers may often …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in … software was created by researchers under the direction of Microbiome Data Science Group Lead Nikos Kyrpides at the … cycles around them. By understanding more about the genomics of MGEs and their evolution at the cellular level, …

… The Science One of the most vital pieces of equipment for fly fishing is a boxful of lures. Designed with feathers … screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they tested the screen … this microbe. The work is an example of how function-driven genomics, which Woyke and her colleagues define as “any form …