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… Lab). Using a single-cell screen, they can now identify microbes with specific functional characteristics. When they … bacterium typically found in low abundances. The Impact Microbes are known to be key contributors to the planet’s biogeochemical cycles, but the vast majority remains uncultivated and …

… work on all kinds of organisms, from plants and fungi to microbes and viruses. Listen in to explore the data that …

… production. They are thought to use billions of tons of the carbon dioxide trapped in biomass each year to do so. As … considered to have a substantial influence on the global carbon cycle. All methanogenic archaea use one of three … applied mini-metagenomics to these samples by sorting the microbes into small pools of cells that were then sequenced …

… avenues for using bacteria to produce ethylene and more.  Microbes excel at recycling the abundant miscellanea of … Sciences (BES) programs, they were able to multiply the insights that each offers.  The work underscores how such … an accessory protein called MarS. MarS functions to downregulate the MAR system. Presumably, MarS has evolved as a …

… and skills necessary to extract meaningful biological insights from sequence data, employing IMG data and tools …

… so, they influence ecosystem-level nutrient cycling and carbon storage. For example, the marine algae  Emiliania … blooms in the ocean that cycle environmental carbon and sulfur. A giant virus, the  E.   huxleyi virus, plays a key … review, researchers Schulz, Abergel and Woyke summarize insights from three decades of work on giant viruses. …