Nature Communications (Jan 2019)
Marine biofilms constitute a bank of hidden microbial diversity and functional potential
- Weipeng Zhang,
- Wei Ding,
- Yong-Xin Li,
- Chunkit Tam,
- Salim Bougouffa,
- Ruojun Wang,
- Bite Pei,
- Hoyin Chiang,
- Pokman Leung,
- Yanhong Lu,
- Jin Sun,
- He Fu,
- Vladimir B Bajic,
- Hongbin Liu,
- Nicole S. Webster,
- Pei-Yuan Qian
Affiliations
- Weipeng Zhang
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Wei Ding
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Yong-Xin Li
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Chunkit Tam
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Salim Bougouffa
- Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Ruojun Wang
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Bite Pei
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Hoyin Chiang
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Pokman Leung
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Yanhong Lu
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Jin Sun
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- He Fu
- Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia
- Vladimir B Bajic
- Computational Bioscience Research Center, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Hongbin Liu
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- Nicole S. Webster
- Australian Institute of Marine Science
- Pei-Yuan Qian
- Department of Ocean Science and Division of Life Science, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08463-z
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 10,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 10
Abstract
Previous surveys of global ocean microbial diversity have focused on planktonic microbes. Here, Zhang et al. use metagenomics to study biofilm-forming marine microbes, increasing the known microbial diversity in the oceans by more than 20% and revealing new biosynthetic gene clusters and CRISPR-Cas systems.
