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… impact on marine microbial communities. The Science A team of researchers tracked the impact of a large-scale heatwave … model aligns with several other studies on the potential effects of warming oceans on the microbial populations and the global carbon cycle. Tracking large-scale marine events such as The Blob …

… ever. Imagine researchers exploring a dark room with a flashlight, only able to clearly identify what falls within that … online Oct. 11, 2023 in  Nature highlights the vast array of functional diversity of microbes through a novel approach … of doing a lot of unique things when it comes to energy cycles — turning biomass into things like ethanol or …

… A metagenomic look at the soil microbes present a year after a wildfire. The Science After … begins at the forest floor. Within the soil, a microbiome of bacteria, viruses and fungi process carbon and nitrogen, … with functions useful for forest recovery, this study sheds light on how microbes contribute as a forest recovers after …

… to replicate themselves and spread from cell to cell. Two of the most common forms of MGEs are viruses and plasmids. … This is because MGEs can affect a microbe’s ability to cycle nutrients or produce new chemicals. They can also … tool to conduct their research. Designed to reduce the effects of taxonomic representation biases during marker …