Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes

  • Quentin Carradec,
  • Eric Pelletier,
  • Corinne Da Silva,
  • Adriana Alberti,
  • Yoann Seeleuthner,
  • Romain Blanc-Mathieu,
  • Gipsi Lima-Mendez,
  • Fabio Rocha,
  • Leila Tirichine,
  • Karine Labadie,
  • Amos Kirilovsky,
  • Alexis Bertrand,
  • Stefan Engelen,
  • Mohammed-Amin Madoui,
  • Raphaël Méheust,
  • Julie Poulain,
  • Sarah Romac,
  • Daniel J. Richter,
  • Genki Yoshikawa,
  • Céline Dimier,
  • Stefanie Kandels-Lewis,
  • Marc Picheral,
  • Sarah Searson,
  • Tara Oceans Coordinators,
  • Olivier Jaillon,
  • Jean-Marc Aury,
  • Eric Karsenti,
  • Matthew B. Sullivan,
  • Shinichi Sunagawa,
  • Peer Bork,
  • Fabrice Not,
  • Pascal Hingamp,
  • Jeroen Raes,
  • Lionel Guidi,
  • Hiroyuki Ogata,
  • Colomban de Vargas,
  • Daniele Iudicone,
  • Chris Bowler,
  • Patrick Wincker

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02342-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Marine microbial eukaryotes and zooplankton display enormous diversity and largely unexplored physiologies. Here, the authors use metatranscriptomics to analyze four organismal size fractions from open-ocean stations, providing the largest reference collection of eukaryotic transcripts from any single biome.