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A photo of Great Boiling Spring in the forefront with mountains in the background. A grey microscopy photo taken at micron-scale. Microbes shown are small, round and slightly spiky in shape. The cover of Nature Reviews Microbiology, with an illustration of a giant virus in purple. Open book with circular representations of microbial genomes above, all against a green background Jean-Marie Volland at Donner lab. One of the pools at Dewar Creek hot springs in British Columbia, Canada. (Allyson Brady) This data image shows the monthly average sea surface temperature for May 2015. Between 2013 and 2016, a large mass of unusually warm ocean water–nicknamed the blob–dominated the North Pacific, indicated here by red, pink, and yellow colors signifying temperatures as much as three degrees Celsius (five degrees Fahrenheit) higher than average. Data are from the NASA Multi-scale Ultra-high Resolution Sea Surface Temperature (MUR SST) Analysis product. (Courtesy NASA Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center) Boeuf and colleagues collected samples of SAR324 microbial communities from this research vessel, the Kilo Moana. (School of Ocean And Earth Science And Technology at University of Hawaii at Manoa) Tanja Woyke Microbial mat under the microscope. Visible layers contain different microbial communities and minerals. The team characterized viruses in a subset of the mat layers. (John Spear) Cartoon from the 2019 Genome Watch article by Tanja Woyke. (Credit: Philip Patenall/Springer Nature Limited)

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