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… use natural products necessarily. Fungi are large. They’re microbes, but they’re large microbes. And they have all sorts of cool phenotypes that … they only talk about the bacteria. My god! 30% of our gut microbes are fungi. It’s really frustrating to me. Maybe …

… conifer needle microbiomes. The survey showed what these microbes are equipped to do on the leaf surface. More … shaped by both local conditions and the movement of microbes through forest canopies.  The Impact This work, … their utility across the bioeconomy. The study shows that microbes have the capacity to metabolize the same chemicals …

… applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced …

… communities. He’s focusing on the Arkansas River and how microbes might be influencing its health.  He sat down with … they’re eating was different, and what they’re eating are microbes.   And so that led him to come to me with the question, well, how are the microbes being affected by the metals? When metals are …

… When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including their photosynthetic partner, that help …

… we really recognize, right?  ALISON: And I tend to think of microbes as being able to secrete a lot more things than … also suddenly useless. ALISON: I got it. Okay. Yeah. Smart microbes. I know they’re not actually smart. That’s …

… As warm-adapted microbes edge polewards, they’d oust resident tiny algae. … they sequenced DNA ‘marker’ gene sequences to identify the microbes. And in order to determine what genes the algae … reverberate throughout the food web, like taking a jackhammer to the foundation of a cathedral. What’s more, …

… elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change. …

… very question-driven. It’s not a bunch of people who have hammers that are looking for nails. Everyone is gazing at … with methanotrophs. The other thing is when you look at symbiotic cyanobacteria they’re providing things for their … ecology community to be able to better predict how their microbes are interacting with each other from sequence …