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… “Where’s Waldo?” readers need to look for a number of distinguishing features. Several characters may be … glasses, or a cane, but only Waldo will have all of these features. As described July 22, 2019, in  Nature … inoviruses are in every major microbial habitat—including soil, water, and humans—around the world. By the numbers, …

… JGI-led team significantly expands the global diversity of large and giant viruses. While the microbes in a single … biogeographic distribution of these viruses in the various ecosystems, their diversity, their predicted metabolic … study from a JGI-led team uncovered giant viruses in the soil for the first time. The current study applied a …

… Rainforests store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of …

… Congratulations to the proposers of the 19 proposals selected for the 2023 Community Science Program call of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome Institute (JGI), a DOE Office …

… the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, … a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those ecosystems work. …

… is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, regulate Earth’s … play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and are of significant interest for their potential contributions to … their research of these newly found methanogens  in diverse ecosystems with  support from a DOE Established Program to …

… The Science Within the archaeal domain, there is a group of tiny hitchhikers. These organisms are abundant and yet … mini genomes to match. As a result, they cannot process all of the chemicals they need to survive. To fill in their … coexist is key for understanding their impact on wider ecosystems, but these symbiotic interactions are difficult …

… genome discoveries. Unlocking the intricate details of life’s genetic blueprint has long been a significant … freshwater environments, the long-term ecological Harvard Forest project, large datasets from soil microbiome studies collected across various terrains, …

… at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and an Adjunct Professor of Plant and Microbial Biology at University of California, Berkeley. He contributed to the Human Genome … at the JGI. Click to learn more about the program's areas of focus, major initiatives and more.  …