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As waters warm due to climate change, corals are in mortal peril. But corals comprise multiple organisms: a … When warm waters stress corals, it might be their microbes, including their photosynthetic partner, that help them take …

DAN UDWARY: You’re listening to the Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute’s Natural Prodcast, a podcast about natural …

… … DAN: You’re listening to the US. .Department of Energy Joint Genome … was looking to develop new methods for DNA sequencing of microbes. And what kept breaking our methods was these damn … plant pathogens to use in agriculture and animal husbandry. So we’re looking for those kinds of activities as well. …

Hey Marcy!  ALISON: Hey Marcy?  MARCY: Hello. How’s it going?  DAN: Good. How are you?  MARCY: Am fine. I live in a … activity. So the chemistry and function really of those microbes that live there.  And in our work we’ve determined … bobtail squid, it’s doing some sort of interaction with its microbes that it’s getting.  But yet the organisms are …

Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As … elements like viruses spread their DNA, they can affect how microbes cycle nutrients and adapt to climate change. …

… gas, regulate Earth’s climate. Most methane is produced in environments without oxygen through a process called … is not limited to  Euryarchaeota .  Finding Methane-Making Microbes with Metagenomics  By leveraging metagenomics to … You don’t have tunnel vision anymore, only seeing the microbes you can grow in the lab — suddenly you see …