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Naomi Ward, University of Wyoming associate professor of molecular biology, collects soil samples for microbiome analysis at the LaPrele Creek mammoth kill site near Douglas, Wyoming.

September 18, 2017

Wyoming's new project will study microbiome samples gathered from across the state.

Naomi Ward, University of Wyoming associate professor of molecular biology, collects soil samples for microbiome analysis at the LaPrele Creek mammoth kill site near Douglas, Wyoming. Sampling of Wyoming soil, plants, water and air will be done at hundreds of sites across the state as part of the university's major study of microbial life over the next five years. Crater Lake in the Medicine Bow National Forest is one of the hundreds of Wyoming sites where soil, plant, water and air samples will be taken for microbial analysis.

Credit: University of Wyoming

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