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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. Frederik Schulz joined the DOE Joint Genome Institute in 2016 and is leading the New Lineages … focussed on the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence … University of Vienna (Austria) PhD Microbial Ecology and Bioinformatics, University of Vienna (Austria) …

… 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 …

… bacteria to regulate key components of its reproductive machinery The Science To better understand how beneficial … to have evolved from a parasitic interaction with their soil fungus host, Rhizopus microsporus . Researchers found … reliant on the continued presence of the bacteria. By studying the Rm-Burkholderia symbiosis model, the team was …

… 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. …