By controlling nutrient cycling and biomass production at the base of the food web,
interactions between phytoplankton and bacteria represent a fundamental ecological …

Glacier ecosystems are teeming with life on, beneath, and to a lesser degree, within their icy
masses. This conclusion largely stems from polar research, with less attention paid to …

Millions of new viral sequences have been identified from metagenomes, but the quality and
completeness of these sequences vary considerably. Here we present CheckV, an …

The capacity of planktonic marine microorganisms to actively seek out and exploit
microscale chemical hotspots has been widely theorized to affect ocean-basin scale …

Background Glacier ice archives information, including microbiology, that helps reveal
paleoclimate histories and predict future climate change. Though glacier-ice microbes are …

Rapidly thawing permafrost harbors∼ 30 to 50% of global soil carbon, and the fate of this
carbon remains unknown. Microorganisms will play a central role in its fate, and their viruses …

Large-scale metagenomic datasets enable the recovery of hundreds of population genomes
from environmental samples. However, these genomes do not typically represent the full …

Viral discovery is accelerating at an unprecedented rate due to continuing advances in
culture-independent sequence-based analyses. One important facet of this discovery is …

In many natural environments, microorganisms decompose microscale resource patches
made of complex organic matter. The growth and collapse of populations on these resource …

Glaciers archive time-structured information on climates and ecosystems, including
microorganisms. However, the long-term ecogenomic dynamics or biogeography of the …