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… metabolic features and putative hosts,” noted study senior author  Tanja Woyke , who heads JGI’s  Microbial Program . … the megabase range. The study’s lead and co-corresponding author Frederik Schulz, a research scientist in Woyke’s … a barcode to sift out virus fragments, reconstructing 2,074 genomes of large and giant viruses. More than 50,000 …

… for thousands of branches,” said Natalia Ivanova, senior author of the study and head of the JGI’s Microbiome … BGC Repertoire in Actinobacteria Over the years more than 3,400 genomes have been sequenced from curated DSMZ isolates, … isolate genomes is clear cut,” said Rekha Seshadri, lead author of the study. “And even if one is agnostic to …

JGI intern now a postdoc in Merchant’s lab who is first author on an upcoming paper, discovered that in the original … names. Sean Gallaher, also with Merchant’s lab and second author on the paper, studied viral genetics and gene therapy …

… viruses outnumber surface microbes 10 to 1, and 20% to 40% of the microbes are infected at any given time. … uninfected cells. Duhaime and Sullivan are co-corresponding authors, while the study’s lead author is Cristina Howard-Varona, a postdoctoral researcher …

… at the University of East Anglia (UEA, UK) and senior author of the study. “Prokaryotes are not capable of … and other physico-chemical properties,” said study coauthor Igor Grigoriev , JGI Fungal & Algal Program Head. … an average surface temperature of about 58° Fahrenheit (14° Celsius) — a cool intermediate to the ocean’s extremes of …

… through computational approaches. By mining more than 14,000 publicly available metagenomic datasets in JGI’s  … the virophage marker gene MCP, they were able to identify 44,221 total virophage partial sequences, including over … diversity, distribution, and evolution of virophages.” Lead author David Paez-Espino  discussed an early version of the …