A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes.
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SUBMITTER: Carradec Q
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5785536 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan
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A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes.
Carradec Quentin Q Pelletier Eric E Da Silva Corinne C Alberti Adriana A Seeleuthner Yoann Y Blanc-Mathieu Romain R Lima-Mendez Gipsi G Rocha Fabio F Tirichine Leila L Labadie Karine K Kirilovsky Amos A Bertrand Alexis A Engelen Stefan S Madoui Mohammed-Amin MA Méheust Raphaël R Poulain Julie J Romac Sarah S Richter Daniel J DJ Yoshikawa Genki G Dimier Céline C Kandels-Lewis Stefanie S Picheral Marc M Searson Sarah S Jaillon Olivier O Aury Jean-Marc JM Karsenti Eric E Sullivan Matthew B MB Sunagawa Shinichi S Bork Peer P Not Fabrice F Hingamp Pascal P Raes Jeroen J Guidi Lionel L Ogata Hiroyuki H de Vargas Colomban C Iudicone Daniele D Bowler Chris C Wincker Patrick P
Nature communications 20180125 1
While our knowledge about the roles of microbes and viruses in the ocean has increased tremendously due to recent advances in genomics and metagenomics, research on marine microbial eukaryotes and zooplankton has benefited much less from these new technologies because of their larger genomes, their enormous diversity, and largely unexplored physiologies. Here, we use a metatranscriptomics approach to capture expressed genes in open ocean Tara Oceans stations across four organismal size fractions ...[more]
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