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… event may foreshadow climate change impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers … Blob.” The event was recorded during a long-term study of microbial communities in the northeastern subarctic Pacific Ocean. The Impact The microbial communities in the ocean drive the biological pump …

… was recognized for “advances in sequence-based studies of microbial assemblies, revealing the roles of microbial communities in carbon cycling, in interactions … JGI’s deputy for user programs. She also leads the JGI’s Microbial Systems group. The award ceremony was held January …

… The first step in the deadly dance between a virus and microbial cell is an embrace. For a virus with a “head-tail” … on its tail fibers to latch onto a specific target on the microbial cell’s membrane. Two decades ago, a team … diversity quickly, allowing these viruses to target new microbial prey. The Impact This research provides a much …

… 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 … sequencing to assess the diversity within and between microbial populations. The work appeared in The ISME Journal …

… Microbial communities living near hydrothermal deep-sea … these vents, and underwater volcanoes,  researchers studied microbial communities across five oceanic regions. In doing … The bacteria, archaea and other microorganisms of the microbial communities around these vents survive in very …

… and genomics to study endosymbiotic associations within microbial eukaryotes. He hopes to broaden our understanding …

… have uncovered genomes for just a small fraction of Earth’s microbial diversity. Because most microbes cannot be … approaches. Identifying and characterizing the planet’s microbial diversity is key to understanding the roles of … and environments, including natural and agricultural soils, human- and animal-host associated, and ocean and …

… how they’d used metagenomics to identify over 27,000 microbial genes. The data from that study is now used across …

… Q:  Does NEON have or plan on collecting RNA samples from soil or surfaces for microbe-focused collections? A: Not at …