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… 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 …

… high-iron homeostasis,” said Nicolas Grosjean, the first author of this paper. Grosjean is a research scientist at … at the JGI and Molecular Foundry, and the study’s senior author. In other proteins, two histidine residues can be … a similar region —  a domain of unknown function, DUF2470. In the world of proteins, a domain of unknown function …