JGI Team that Uncovered Giant Virus Genomes in a Forest Soil Ecosystem (IMAGE)

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JGI Team that Uncovered Giant Virus Genomes in a Forest Soil Ecosystem

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The JGI team involved in the study included (left to right): first author Frederik Schulz; senior author Tanja Woyke; Rex Malmstrom; and, Danielle Goudeau (sitting). With a myriad of microbial cells in a single gram of soil, JGI researchers aimed to reduce the complexity by flow-sorting microbes into several of small pools of only 100 cells each before sequencing these pools separately. When the data from this "mini-metagenomics" approach was analyzed, 15 novel giant virus genomes were uncovered.

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