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New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. … microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their … at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), shows methanogenesis is not limited to  Euryarchaeota .  …

… launch a pilot project and begin the work of understanding how engineered environments contribute to greenhouse gases,” … focuses on the roles of microbial communities in wetland carbon cycling and the interactions of plants with their … Rambo will be studying the influence of viruses on carbon cycling in coastal mangroves. The work complements an …

Methane is a greenhouse gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing … “Therefore, determining under which form it emerged and how it gave rise to the different pathways we see today is … Borrel and Gribaldo said. “Overall, these results show a striking case of how metabolic diversity can emerge …

… land plants, which means they offer a lot of insights into how plant materials can be broken down for things like biomass and  biofuels . However, AMF and the microbial communities they inhabit are … Soil microorganisms play a critical role in sequestering carbon and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, and …

… ecosystems. This means they hold clues for understanding how life thrives in extreme environments. They also produce … 40 samples from five oceanic regions to better understand how these hydrothermal ecosystems function in such extreme … nitrogen metabolism, as well as those that play a role in carbon cycling. However, the high degree of variability in …

Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the atmosphere. This episode, researchers take …

… they noticed while collecting the samples on canoes just how much change had occurred in this region since the images … to assist them with soil sample analysis for nitrogen and carbon concentrations along with water content. The class … added a layer of complexity to the project for figuring out how to bring this project together. The class understood …

… the first ever measurements of in situ growth rates and carbon consumption of SAR11 bacteria, the most abundant …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to … been found in other viruses, bacteria, and archaea. But how widely distributed they are, and the roles that they … DE-AC02-05CH11231 through the Community Science Program (CSP), the G. Unger Vetlesen and Ambrose Monell Foundations, …

… bacteriophages. Cell . 185(21):4023-4037 Nayfach S, et al. (2021) Metagenomic compendium of 189,680 DNA viruses from the … Nat Microbiol . 6(7):960-970. Nayfach S, et al. (2021) CheckV assesses the quality and completeness of … Nature Biotechnol . 39(5):578-585. Nayfach S, et al. (2021) A genomic catalog of Earth’s microbiomes. Nature …