Phages explode bacteria to share vital vitamin B12 with microbes
Vitamin B12 is biological gold. All living organisms need a little bit of it to form red blood…
Physiological Trade-offs Drive The archaeal Dominance And Carbon Turnover In Deep Subsurface
Conceptual framework of vertically stratified carbon cycling and microbial succession driven by physiological trade-offs in shelf sediments. Organic…
Earliest Organisms on Earth Built Their Biochemistry around Molybdenum, Study Suggests
New research reveals that 3.4 billion years ago (Archean Eon), ancient microbes relied on molybdenum — a metal…
The Recovery Of 12,789 Genomes Revealed The Diversity, Function, And Microbial Interactions Of The Geothermal Spring Microbiome
Community composition and functional profiles of 152 samples. a, The relative abundance of archaea and bacteria in 152…
These archaea built a distinct genetic code to put pyrrolysine in proteins
There are few hard and fast rules in the study of life, but perhaps the closest we…
Study uncovers three-way relationships between gut fungi, genetics and disease risk
A new genome-wide study uncovers evidence of the first three-way relationships between human genetic variation, variation in the…