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Microbial ecology: Linking omics to biogeochemistry

Natural volcanic CO2 seeps (mofettes) provided a natural experiment to use omic and biogeochemical approaches to explore how flooding a system with CO2 impacts algal photosynthesis and methanogenesis.

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Figure 1: The challenge in linking omics data to biogeochemical processes.

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Schimel, J. Microbial ecology: Linking omics to biogeochemistry. Nat Microbiol 1, 15028 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmicrobiol.2015.28

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