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Plasmid, Virus or Other? DNA ‘Borgs’ Blur Boundaries.

By Jordana Cepelewicz +1 authors
Allison Whitten
July 21, 2021
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Scientists have reported large DNA structures in some archaea that defy easy categorization.

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What a Newfound Kingdom Means for the Tree of Life

By Jonathan Lambert
December 11, 2018
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Neither animal, plant, fungus nor familiar protozoan, a strange microbe that sits in its own “supra-kingdom” of life foretells incredible biodiversity yet to be discovered by new sequencing technologies.

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Below Our Feet, a World of Hidden Life

By Elizabeth Svoboda
June 16, 2015
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The soil teems with billions of hidden microbes. Researchers have begun to catalog how these organisms are changing the world.

Biology

Scientists Map 5,000 New Ocean Viruses

By Carl Zimmer
May 21, 2015
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In the few decades since viruses were first found in the oceans, scientists have only been able to identify a handful of species. A new survey has uncovered nearly all the rest.

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