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… from The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan studying how virus infections cause significant … metabolic changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical … As part of efforts to characterize global microbial diversity with an aim to improve predictive ecosystems …

… gas 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Billions of years ago, methane-producing archaea likely played a key role in determining the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere and regulating the global climate … in nearly all types of anaerobic environments suggest the diversity of methane metabolisms is “vastly underestimated.” …

Understanding how a fundamental mechanism of evolution allows microbes to adapt to changing … cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team discovered a group of viruses that had in their genomes a surprising tool: a “diversity generating retroelement,” or DGR. The DGR could …

Over the last year, we’ve been revisiting a number of notable achievements that showcase our collaborations and …   Usually, plants have the upper hand against any kind of biomass breakdown. They’ve spent millions of years … sample, or a rumen sample, you’re going to find beautiful diversity.”  Within that diversity of bacteria and fungi, …