2024-03-29T06:20:31Zhttp://digital.csic.es/dspace-oai/requestoai:digital.csic.es:10261/1252442019-10-16T11:40:54Zcom_10261_123com_10261_8col_10261_502
Acinas, Silvia G.
Salazar, Guillem
2014-11-17
2nd International Ocean Research Conference (2014)
http://hdl.handle.net/10261/125244
Prokaryotes are a relevant component of the ocean’s food networks; they are responsible for 30% of the primary biomass production and 95% of the respiration of the ocean accounting with 1029 cells in the global ocean. Microbial diversity and patterns at global scale is still poorly known but this knowledge is essential to understand carbon flow in the ocean. A lack of systematic sampling exists for both photic and aphotic ocean layers covering the main world’s oceans. Thus, little is know about the comparison of microbial communities in both vertical and horizontal gradients in the ocean. In the context of TARA Oceans expedition, we have analyzed the prokaryotic diversity and patterns at global scale using alternative approaches based on new sequencing technologies. We also present the first worldwide study comparing prokaryotes and picoeukaryotes under a unified approach. A total of 1.3 x 107 16S/18 rDNA sequences from Illumina metagenomes (miTags; about 100,000 miTags per sample) covering two size fractions (0.2-1.6 and 0.2-3µm) retrieved from more than 60 Tara-Oceans stations across main photic and mesopelagic allowed us to unveil global biodiversity patterns at a cross-domain level. Our findings on microbial diversity and patterns would be relevant for future planktonic ecosystem modeling predictions
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Microbial diversity and patterns at global scale from TARA Oceans: how far we are?
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