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Nitrosococcus watsonii sp. nov., a new species of marine obligate ammonia‐oxidizing bacteria that is not omnipresent in the world's oceans: calls to validate the names ‘Nitrosococcus halophilus’ and ‘Nitrosomonas mobilis’
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Draft genome sequence of marine alphaproteobacterial strain HIMB11, the first cultivated representative of a unique lineage within the Roseobacter clade possessing an unusually small genome
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Methane Makers in Yosemite’s Lakes
… sampled the microbial communities living in the mountaintop lakes of the Sierra Nevada mountains. These lakes are isolated, … a great way to see how climate change affects freshwater ecosystems, and how those ecosystems work. …
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Fungus Fuels Tree Growth
… start pinning down how a fungal symbiont spurs growth of poplar, a potential biofuel feedstock.     The Science The fungus  Mortierella elongata … Advanced Research on the Biology of Tree and Forest Ecosystems (ARBRE) (ANR-11-LABX 0002 01 to F. Martin), JGI …
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Uri Neri
… days wrangling viral genomes and occasionally remembering to document his code. At JGI, he develops tools for viral … discovery and analysis, with a particular fondness for RNA viruses – though he'll take a look at anything related to … just "spicy messenger RNA", and that somewhere in the mess of genetic sequences lurks the next cool virus – if only our …
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Diversity and Distribution of a Novel Genus of Hyperthermophilic Aquificae Viruses Encoding a Proof-Reading Family-A DNA Polymerase
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Prokaryotic viruses impact functional microorganisms in nutrient removal and carbon cycle in wastewater treatment plants
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Antarctic lake viromes reveal potential virus associated influences on nutrient cycling in ice-covered lakes
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MVP: a modular viromics pipeline to identify, filter, cluster, annotate, and bin viruses from metagenomes.
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iPHoP: An integrated machine learning framework to maximize host prediction for metagenome-derived viruses of archaea and bacteria
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MArVD2: a machine learning enhanced tool to discriminate between archaeal and bacterial viruses in viral datasets
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From Competition to Cooperation
Tracking evolution of symbiotic lifestyles across multiple fungal lineages. The … 135 fungal sequenced genomes, researchers were able to carry out a broader analysis than had ever been done … relationships, and how the mutualistic associations allow host plants, such as candidate  bioenergy feedstock …
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