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… ditched their flagella and other traits when migrating back to the ocean. The Science Scientists have discovered … to spring. These biodiversity hotspots harbor specialized microbial communities living in extreme conditions. The … flagella would be a liability in open water — requiring more energy for the bacteria to orient and swim than they …

… Developing and validating an integrated approach to genome recovery from metagenomes. The Science Through the … sequence binning algorithms, allowing them to reconstruct more near-complete genomes from soil metagenomes compared to … genomes, particularly from incredibly complex soil microbial communities, is crucial to understanding how these …

… Though visible to the naked eye, microscopy reveals unexpected complexity … This newly discovered species of bacteria keeps its DNA more organized. “The big surprise of the project was to … in coastal sediments,” said Woyke, who also heads the JGI’s Microbial Program and is one of the article’s senior …

… user facilities—the  Environmental Molecular Sciences Laboratory (EMSL) and the  DOE Joint Genome Institute (JGI)—have … in the Sierra Nevada mountain range since 2014 to learn more about the microbial responses and feedbacks to warming through the … User Facility  located at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, is committed to advancing genomics in support of DOE …