Communications Biology (May 2021)

Deep ocean metagenomes provide insight into the metabolic architecture of bathypelagic microbial communities

  • Silvia G. Acinas,
  • Pablo Sánchez,
  • Guillem Salazar,
  • Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo,
  • Marta Sebastián,
  • Ramiro Logares,
  • Marta Royo-Llonch,
  • Lucas Paoli,
  • Shinichi Sunagawa,
  • Pascal Hingamp,
  • Hiroyuki Ogata,
  • Gipsi Lima-Mendez,
  • Simon Roux,
  • José M. González,
  • Jesús M. Arrieta,
  • Intikhab S. Alam,
  • Allan Kamau,
  • Chris Bowler,
  • Jeroen Raes,
  • Stéphane Pesant,
  • Peer Bork,
  • Susana Agustí,
  • Takashi Gojobori,
  • Dolors Vaqué,
  • Matthew B. Sullivan,
  • Carlos Pedrós-Alió,
  • Ramon Massana,
  • Carlos M. Duarte,
  • Josep M. Gasol

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02112-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Silvia Acinas et al. report the Malaspina Gene Database, a gene catalogue from deep ocean microbes and the Malaspina Deep Metagenome-Assembled Genomes (MAGs) which is made publicly available. The analysis of the metabolic pathways within these MAGs sheds light on the composition and of the strategies these microbes use to survive the deep ocean microbiome.