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… down tough plant fibers. The Science Walk in a temperate forest filled with Norway spruce trees, and microbial … the enzymes present in the complex organic matrix of the forest floor, a team of researchers have found that there is … nutrient. The Impact This study is the first to dig into a forest floor ecosystem to discover what carbon- and …

… fragments and data quality. The Science Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more … virus sequences vary widely. In a previous effort, an international consortium recommended specific guidelines and best practices for characterizing uncultivated viruses. Following up on …

New studies show methanogenesis is not exclusively for Euryarchaeota. Atmospheric levels of methane, a potent … called methanogenesis. Methanogenic microorganisms therefore play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, and … methanogens were, but they were discovered by genome sequencing, which is a much less biased approach to studying …