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… event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers … Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern subarctic Pacific Ocean. The Impact The microbial communities in the ocean drive the biological pump …

… The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team … diversity quickly, allowing these viruses to target new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much …

… manager in 2006 when the JGI transitioned from human to microbial genetics. Drell held the role until he retired in …

… of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from microbial and metagenome sequence data sets generated from a … sequencing to assess the diversity within and between microbial populations. The work appeared in The ISME Journal …

… was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial assemblies, revealing the roles of microbial communities in carbon cycling, in interactions … JGI’s deputy for user programs. She also leads the JGI’s Microbial Systems group. The award ceremony was held January …

… adapt from marine to hypersaline conditions by studying the microbial communities in Antarctic lakes, some of which have … haloarchaea and the structure and extent of the Antarctic microbial pan-genome. Since these microbes thrive under … understanding their adaptations offers insights into microbial evolution, as well as how Antarctic microbial …