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Populations of Antarctic lake microbial communities change with the … aligned with light availability. A long-running time-series study offers a first glimpse into a full season’s cycle of … five decades. In these frigid systems, where organisms higher up in the food web like fish do not exist, nutrient …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found … called geNomad identifies and classifies MGEs based upon their gene content and their genetic sequences. The … located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because …

… to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across California State University campuses for biotechnology education as part of a course-based undergraduate resource … Hess, also the chair of the JGI User Executive Committee, on how that study went from the lab to the classroom. …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing environments. The Science The first step in the deadly dance … the dice. There’s some evidence to support the idea. Study coauthor Stephen Nayfach, a JGI bioinformatics …

Matt is broadly interested in the interactions between microbial life and environment, and using metagenomics to study these complex natural systems. Microbial communities …

… 5,000 times bigger than most bacteria. To put it into context, it would be like a human encountering another human … at the Université des Antilles and a co-first author on the study, performed the 16S rRNA gene sequencing to identify … these giant cells in three dimensions and at relatively high magnification. Using various microscopy techniques, …

High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi The Science Researchers have … automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … Institute State University, was released to the public in a highly-cited 2006 publication in the journal Science . This … the UC Berkeley team, along with local community college students Lea Green and Natalie Chapman, headed to their lab …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … researchers at the University of Texas at Austin produced a high-quality reference sequence of the complex switchgrass … as multiple copies across the chromosomes. In a follow-up study , researchers focused on two types of naturally …