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Madison. And Trina McMahon's lab has been sampling the microbes of that lake for over 20 years, to understand how …

… ecosystem. The Science Altiarchaea are carbon-fixing microbes and targets of multiple viruses in Earth’s deep … to infect and destroy the host archaea – and how the  microbes resist. The battle waged below the Earth’s surface … organic carbon which can serve as a food source for other microbes into the environment. Summary In J. R. R. Tolkien’s …

… the interactions that happen between tiny organisms (microbes) located in soils and water. MGEs like viruses and … processes and evolution. This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new … ecosystems by killing other cells. Over time, MGEs can help microbes gain a competitive edge within an ecosystem. They …

… store a big fraction of all the carbon on Earth, and soil microbes play a key role in pulling that carbon out of the …

… of course, the cells of other organisms. As they infect microbes like bacteria, algae and protists, all kinds of … and in your data, and they’re probably influencing the microbes there,” said Simon Roux , the Viral Genomics Group … do anything with a microbiome — you know, target specific microbes or change the behavior of this bacteria — most …

… microbial communities. These experiments can show which microbes are handling specific nutrients, or what they're …

Yosemite National Park, taken by JGI’s own Jon Bertsch. Microbes isolated from Mono Lake were sequenced by the JGI …

… dominated Copper River Delta. They’re looking at how the microbes in these high latitude wetlands, such as the Copper … colleagues are studying how chronic warming is altering how microbes interact with their environment, potentially …

… predictive models on how climate change may impact marine microbes and by extension, the ocean’s capacity to act as a … saw populations shift. Smaller picoplankton and free-living microbes that can fix carbon dioxide replaced organic matter …

Every year, the JGI sequences around 35,000 samples — from plants, algae, bacteria, archaea, fungi, viruses — to …

The products of photosynthesis are easy to point out. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria create the air we breathe … initial target was a family of proteins that appeared in plants and algae and contained a similar region —  a domain … carbon cycles. Given that similar protein domains exist in plants and algae, these findings could pave the way for …