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… in the ocean drive the biological pump that takes carbon from the atmosphere and keeps it in the deep ocean. … microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a carbon sink. Summary As global temperatures rise, so do … samples. Genomic DNA extracted from the water samples were sequenced by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint …

… production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year to do so. As … considered to have a substantial influence on the global carbon cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three … the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced separately. From these samples, 111 …

… kinds of ecosystems. However, matching these viral genetic sequences to their hosts is crucial to understanding what … organisms carry out important environmental processes like  carbon fixation , nitrogen cycling and methane production. … of data points.  Applied to 216,015 high-quality virus sequences in the IMG/VR database, the iPHoP program …

… the planet’s oceans can exert great influence on earth’s carbon and nitrogen cycles. Currently one of the best ways … hydrothermal vents – and computationally identifying which sequences represent viruses that were present in the sample. …