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… the discovery of novel bacterial, archaeal and eukaryotic microbes and viruses in environmental sequence data. Dr. …

… uses single-cell genomics and metagenomics to explore how microbes influence people and the environment. This includes … studying the diversity, physiology and community ecology of microbes sampled from the natural environment. …

… infections cause significant metabolic changes in marine microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected … changes they’ve undergone. The Impact The number of microbes in, on, and around the planet is an astronomical … outnumber them. In the ocean, viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are …

… outline more targeted approaches to reconstruct individual microbes in an environmental sample beyond the … into several small pools before sequencing to recover rare microbes. The technique was applied to a recent Nature … DNA with isotopically-labeled compounds to link active microbes with specific metabolic processes. A third approach …

Oh, the magical world of the cow stomach. Rumen – and its microbes – are really a powerhouse. Rumen microbes have the ability to break down hardy plant cell … requirements of processing these sturdy materials, rumen microbes and their enzymes are an optimal study subject that …

A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After … future plants and trees to grow. However, fire changes the microbes within the soil. To get a clearer picture of how … useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest recovers after a wildfire. …

… genetic material, thus bypassing the need to culture these microbes in the lab. After joining the JGI, he formed the … that provides JGI users access to the genomes of uncultured microbes.  His group also handles the Stable Isotope Probing …

… flow cytometry protocols for targeted recovery of specific microbes. …

… to commandeer. For bacteriophage viruses, these hosts are microbes like bacteria, not humans. With metagenomic … Within the domains of archaea and bacteria, millions of  microbes govern ecosystems. These organisms carry out … viruses are constantly infecting and reprogramming these microbes. A better understanding of virus-host interactions …