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 …

Human‐induced salinity changes impact marine organisms and ecosystems

T Röthig, SM Trevathan‐Tackett… - Global change …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is fundamentally altering marine and coastal ecosystems on a global scale.
While the effects of ocean warming and acidification on ecology and ecosystem functions …

[HTML][HTML] Biosynthetic potential of the global ocean microbiome

L Paoli, HJ Ruscheweyh, CC Forneris, F Hubrich… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Natural microbial communities are phylogenetically and metabolically diverse. In addition to
underexplored organismal groups, this diversity encompasses a rich discovery potential for …

Viruses interact with hosts that span distantly related microbial domains in dense hydrothermal mats

Y Hwang, S Roux, C Coclet, SJE Krause… - Nature Microbiology, 2023 - nature.com
Many microbes in nature reside in dense, metabolically interdependent communities. We
investigated the nature and extent of microbe-virus interactions in relation to microbial …

[HTML][HTML] Global marine microbial diversity and its potential in bioprospecting

J Chen, Y Jia, Y Sun, K Liu, C Zhou, C Liu, D Li, G Liu… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The past two decades has witnessed a remarkable increase in the number of microbial
genomes retrieved from marine systems,. However, it has remained challenging to translate …

A roadmap for metagenomic enzyme discovery

SL Robinson, J Piel, S Sunagawa - Natural Product Reports, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Covering: up to 2021 Metagenomics has yielded massive amounts of sequencing data
offering a glimpse into the biosynthetic potential of the uncultivated microbial majority. While …

Metagenomic analysis reveals global-scale patterns of ocean nutrient limitation

LJ Ustick, AA Larkin, CA Garcia, NS Garcia, ML Brock… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Nutrient supply regulates the activity of phytoplankton, but the global biogeography of
nutrient limitation and co-limitation is poorly understood. Prochlorococcus adapt to local …

Charting the complexity of the marine microbiome through single-cell genomics

MG Pachiadaki, JM Brown, J Brown, O Bezuidt… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Marine bacteria and archaea play key roles in global biogeochemistry. To improve our
understanding of this complex microbiome, we employed single-cell genomics and a …

Understanding biofouling and contaminant accretion on submerged marine structures

P Vuong, A McKinley, P Kaur - npj Materials Degradation, 2023 - nature.com
Fouling of maritime infrastructure is pervasive due to abundant biological and chemical
activity within the oceanic environment. Marine biofilms and their successional growths are …

[HTML][HTML] EukProt: a database of genome-scale predicted proteins across the diversity of eukaryotes

DJ Richter, C Berney, JFH Strassert… - Peer Community …, 2022 - peercommunityjournal.org
EukProt is a database of published and publicly available predicted protein sets selected to
represent the breadth of eukaryotic diversity, currently including 993 species from all major …