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Uri Neri is a computational biologist who spends his days wrangling viral genomes … viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to microbial parasites. When not debugging pipelines, he can be found trying to convince others that RNA viruses are …

… at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin, the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology (HudsonAlpha), and the … diversity across the natural range of switchgrass found that polyploidy has enhanced the adaptive potential of … of a “ploidy hop,” when switchgrass (and by extension similar taxa) are faced with pronounced environmental …

… tree and soil dataset for understanding the dynamic relationship between poplar trees and their microbial partners. The Science To help better understand … molecules produced by the trees and associated microbial communities. This revealed key metabolic pathways and …

… not humans. With metagenomic sequencing, researchers have found more of these viruses than ever before, in all kinds … opens the possibility of using phages to engineer microbial communities. One day, these phages could boost plant-microbe …

In honor of the JGI's 25th anniversary in 2022, we have … also helped track and characterize the shifting waves of microbial communities involved in removing different fractions of the …

… vitamins; zinc fuels some of their most important functions. Even in the chilly waters of Antarctica, tiny … and activity of phytoplankton genes and looking at how communities of these microalgae interact, researchers have found that polar algae rely on dissolved zinc to …

… and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. They can be found in virtually all of Earth’s ecosystems. A software … in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and plasmids drive microbial processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can …