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…   Visualizing a novel, candidate viral genome found in the deep … below the Earth’s surface is reconstructed by combining a study of microbial communities (metagenomics) and a chemical … researchers are using Altiarchaea as a model system to study virus-host interactions. Approximately 150 archaeal …

… How sex chromosomes “older than dinosaurs” could help improve crop yields.  The Science The … sequences of the male and female plants, each representing a single set of chromosomes, are available. The genome … four times the size of the next largest chromosome. As the study first author Carey put it, these sex chromosomes first …

… Dr. Kyrpides joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2004 to lead the … comparative analysis platforms for microbial genomes and metagenomes (IMG). He became the Metagenomics Program head in 2010 and has the combined Microbial Genomes and Metagenomes Program since 2011. Prior to joining the DOE …

… High-throughput stable isotope probing helps ID novel interactions between bacteria and fungi … automated aspects of a commonly-used process for studying microbial communities, with results published in … microorganisms live in complex communities, like within soils or the gut, they are difficult to study individually. …

… the way we currently isolate and extract viruses,” said the study’s lead author Simon Roux, a JGI research scientist in … search tool combed through more than 70,000 microbial and metagenome datasets, ultimately identifying more than 10,000 … inoviruses are in every major microbial habitat—including soil, water, and humans—around the world. By the numbers, …