Viromes and metagenomes captured partially overlapping but differently biased components of the total gut viral community. This has significant implications for inter-study comparisons.
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The Metagenome Stability Diagram uses gene markers across ecosystems to understand how environmental conditions constrain metabolic activity in microbiomes. 🖥️🧬🦠
https://jgi.doe.gov/user-science/science-stories/data-discovery-tool-helps-identify-microbial-roles-within-metagenomes
UKRI's chief executive said recently that the UK "may wish to explore" paring back its association to the EU's research programme, to make it partial.
That would be a "profound strategic error", critics now warn.
By @clanicholson.bsky.social
www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-euro...
Soil viruses are important regulators of ecosystem function, but what are their roles in environments that face long-term degradation and restoration? In our paper published today in Nature Micro, we asked how soil viruses influence peatland recovery, and vice versa. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Huge thanks to co-authors Trina Knotts, Sean Adams, Mohammed Ali, @mattolm.bsky.social, and to my PI, Joanne Emerson, who handled all of the wet-lab sample processing.
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