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… between the analyzed community members. The Impact Though microbes help regulate the planet’s nutrient cycles and are … of tens of thousands of previously unknown and uncultivated microbes through metagenomics. Such techniques take … temperatures can reach as high as 80°C (~190°F), yet microbes thrive here. The communities in this extreme …

… store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the …

… 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 …

… of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of … and in your data, and they’re probably influencing the microbes there,” said Simon Roux , the Viral Genomics Group … do anything with a microbiome — you know, target specific microbes or change the behavior of this bacteria — most …

… 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 …

… users can leverage to create a more complete picture of how microbes control useful chemistry in other organisms.  … the power of combining multiple omics methods to decode how microbes control chemical production. These efforts support …  Researchers studying Streptomyces species or related microbes can work with the JGI to apply the same integrated …

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

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

… ecologist and JGI user Trina McMahon has been sampling microbes at Lake Mendota, which borders the University of … Mendota data set, illuminating not just the highly-abundant microbes we expect to see, but also low-abundance … Mendota time series is an investment that pays dividends. Microbes are at the core of many environmental processes, …

… 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 …

… 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 …