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… it. The isotopes are incorporated into the DNA of specific microbes who consume the labeled food or water. Later, their … which microorganisms used the labeled substance and which microbes did not. This is normally an arduous wet lab … them. In this case, scientists identified a wide variety of microbes, including both bacteria and archaea, actively …

… microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're …

Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI …

Computational Sieves to Filter Sequences There are more microbes on the planet than particles in a handful of dirt, and viruses vastly outnumber the microbes. Advances in sequencing technologies and … that infect not just crops, animals and humans, but also microbes whose presence or absence can impact the planet’s …

… dominated Copper River Delta. They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, such as the Copper … colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes interact with their environment, potentially …

… predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a … saw populations shift. Smaller picoplankton and free-living microbes that can fix carbon dioxide replaced organic matter …

Scientists find bee gut microbes have a division of labor when it comes to … has identified the major metabolic roles of constituent microbes, publishing their findings in the  Proceedings of …

… but they’re not always immediately apparent. Similarly, the microbes found in plant roots may have unknown roles. Some … fungi must be kept in check by the host and other microbes not to impede host health. For JGI Fungal Program … the European Regional Development Fund, and the Plant–Microbe Interfaces Scientific Focus Area in the Genomic …

… cycling is a carbon flux regulator since sulfate-reducing microbes prevent methane production by routing the carbon … oxidation. The findings lead them to speculate that these microbes could use the same pathway for either sulfur …

… work on which she is expanding with her study of microbes in California’s manmade water transport canals. …