Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology

S Sunagawa, SG Acinas, P Bork, C Bowler… - Nature Reviews …, 2020‏ - nature.com
A planetary-scale understanding of the ocean ecosystem, particularly in light of climate
change, is crucial. Here, we review the work of Tara Oceans, an international …

Globally consistent quantitative observations of planktonic ecosystems

F Lombard, E Boss, AM Waite, M Vogt, J Uitz… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
In this paper we review the technologies available to make globally quantitative
observations of particles in general—and plankton in particular—in the world oceans, and …

A 2-million-year-old ecosystem in Greenland uncovered by environmental DNA

KH Kjær, M Winther Pedersen, B De Sanctis… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Abstract Late Pliocene and Early Pleistocene epochs 3.6 to 0.8 million years ago had
climates resembling those forecasted under future warming. Palaeoclimatic records show …

MGnify: the microbiome analysis resource in 2020

AL Mitchell, A Almeida, M Beracochea… - Nucleic acids …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract MGnify (http://www. ebi. ac. uk/metagenomics) provides a free to use platform for the
assembly, analysis and archiving of microbiome data derived from sequencing microbial …

Global trends in marine plankton diversity across kingdoms of life

FM Ibarbalz, N Henry, MC Brandão, S Martini… - Cell, 2019‏ - cell.com
The ocean is home to myriad small planktonic organisms that underpin the functioning of
marine ecosystems. However, their spatial patterns of diversity and the underlying drivers …

Clades of huge phages from across Earth's ecosystems

B Al-Shayeb, R Sachdeva, LX Chen, F Ward, P Munk… - Nature, 2020‏ - nature.com
Bacteriophages typically have small genomes and depend on their bacterial hosts for
replication. Here we sequenced DNA from diverse ecosystems and found hundreds of …

Ecogenomics and potential biogeochemical impacts of globally abundant ocean viruses

S Roux, JR Brum, BE Dutilh, S Sunagawa… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
Ocean microbes drive biogeochemical cycling on a global scale. However, this cycling is
constrained by viruses that affect community composition, metabolic activity, and …

[HTML][HTML] VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

T Rognes, T Flouri, B Nichols, C Quince, F Mahé - PeerJ, 2016‏ - peerj.com
Background VSEARCH is an open source and free of charge multithreaded 64-bit tool for
processing and preparing metagenomics, genomics and population genomics nucleotide …

Insights into global diatom distribution and diversity in the world's ocean

S Malviya, E Scalco, S Audic, F Vincent… - Proceedings of the …, 2016‏ - pnas.org
Diatoms (Bacillariophyta) constitute one of the most diverse and ecologically important
groups of phytoplankton. They are considered to be particularly important in nutrient-rich …

Plankton networks driving carbon export in the oligotrophic ocean

L Guidi, S Chaffron, L Bittner, D Eveillard, A Larhlimi… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
The biological carbon pump is the process by which CO2 is transformed to organic carbon
via photosynthesis, exported through sinking particles, and finally sequestered in the deep …