Nature Communications (Jul 2021)
Global distribution patterns of marine nitrogen-fixers by imaging and molecular methods
- Juan José Pierella Karlusich,
- Eric Pelletier,
- Fabien Lombard,
- Madeline Carsique,
- Etienne Dvorak,
- Sébastien Colin,
- Marc Picheral,
- Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo,
- Silvia G. Acinas,
- Rainer Pepperkok,
- Eric Karsenti,
- Colomban de Vargas,
- Patrick Wincker,
- Chris Bowler,
- Rachel A. Foster
Affiliations
- Juan José Pierella Karlusich
- Institut de Biologie de l’ENS (IBENS), Département de biologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL
- Eric Pelletier
- CNRS Research Federation for the study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE
- Fabien Lombard
- CNRS Research Federation for the study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE
- Madeline Carsique
- Institut de Biologie de l’ENS (IBENS), Département de biologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL
- Etienne Dvorak
- Institut de Biologie de l’ENS (IBENS), Département de biologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL
- Sébastien Colin
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory
- Marc Picheral
- CNRS Research Federation for the study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE
- Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo
- Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Station Biologique de Roscoff, UMR 7144, ECOMAP
- Silvia G. Acinas
- Department of Marine Biology and Oceanography, Institut de Ciènces del Mar, CSIC
- Rainer Pepperkok
- CNRS Research Federation for the study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE
- Eric Karsenti
- Institut de Biologie de l’ENS (IBENS), Département de biologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL
- Colomban de Vargas
- CNRS Research Federation for the study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE
- Patrick Wincker
- CNRS Research Federation for the study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE
- Chris Bowler
- Institut de Biologie de l’ENS (IBENS), Département de biologie, École normale supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, Université PSL
- Rachel A. Foster
- Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-24299-y
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 12,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 18
Abstract
Nitrogen fixation by diazotrophs is critical for marine primary production. Using Tara Oceans datasets, this study combines a quantitative image analysis pipeline with metagenomic mining to provide an improved global overview of diazotroph abundance, diversity and distribution.
