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In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have revisited a … and capabilities to enable great science that will help solve energy and environmental challenges. Viruses are … they often need unique conditions and a specific microbial host to replicate. Sequencing genetic material directly from …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … and viral genomes, as well as genomes sampled all at once from the same environment, called metagenomes. Why? Simon … viruses accessed many more potential microbial cells or hosts. This ability isn’t enough to make them super viruses, …

… microbial genomics reveals one bacterial species is made of four ecologically distinct groups with different … But SAR324 can be found throughout the water column, from the warm, well-lit surface, to the blue-lit twilight … relying on different ways of living. The Impact Microbes help regulate the global carbon cycle — fixing, …

For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … investigating a lichen’s genomes and transcriptomes could help inform efforts at bioengineering symbiotic microbial … autonomy; they can be isolated and grown separately from each other. A possible explanation, according to the …

… 2004 to lead the Genome Biology Program and the development of the comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes … of the global RNA virome reveals diverse clades of bacteriophages. Cell . 185(21):4023-4037 Nayfach S, et al. … S1097-2765 Schulz F, et al. 2020. Giant virus diversity and host interactions through global metagenomics. Nature . …