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… recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled virus sequences vary widely. In a previous … The work conducted by the U.S. Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute is supported by the Office …

… a microbial mat. The Science In microbial mats, communities of microorganisms live among viruses that infect them. But … a more systematic picture through single-cell and metagenomic sequencing. A team co-led by Mária Džunková, … the virus in 34 hosts or 26 percent of the single cells. Metagenomics sequencing then allowed the team to ask, for the …

… For the first time, a team analyzes the transcriptomes of a lichen fungus and alga to understand their partnership … is a superorganism: one being that is actually comprised of two (or more) participants. One is a fungus (usually … genomes and compared them to close relatives who don’t engage in the lichen lifestyle. The team’s results appear in  …

… viruses outnumber the microbes by at least another order of magnitude. For years, scientists at the DOE Joint Genome … CheckV , which assesses the quality and completeness of metagenome-assembled viral genomes ( Nature Biotechnology , … learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria ( PLoS Biol …