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… Microbial cells infected by viruses undergo metabolic reprogramming. The Science If it looks like a duck and quacks like a … microbes, the answer is no. They refer to the infected microbial cells as virocells, a change in name first … portion of this research was performed under the Facilities Integrating Collaborations for User Science (FICUS) …

… second fiddle to those from fungi when it comes to breaking down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial activity teems beneath your feet. Both bacteria … they belong. This study provides further insights into the microbial involvement in carbon and nitrogen cycling and …

… a wildfire. The Science After a wildfire burns, recovery begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of … return to health, researchers have taken a look at microbial genomes across a spectrum of burned soils. By connecting microbial genes with functions useful for forest recovery, …

… Camargo and Simon Roux, a few of the JGI researchers behind software that finds plasmids and viruses within microbial genomes. As mobile genetic elements like viruses …

… A preview of how large-scale single cell genomics complements metagenomics studies. The … of bioinformatics tools for  extracting snippets of microbial genomes directly from environmental sequence data, … ago, a candidate bacterial lineage was identified from microbial and metagenome sequence data sets generated from a …