Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

Tara Oceans Coordinators; Shinichi Sunagawa; Luis Pedro Coelho; Samuel Chaffron; Jens Roat Kultima; Karine Labadie; Guillem Salazar; Bardya Djahanschiri; Georg Zeller; Daniel R. Mende; Adriana Alberti; Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo; Paul I. Costea; Corinne Cruaud; Francesco D'Ovidio; Stefan Engelen; Isabel Ferrera; Josep M. Gasol; Lionel Guidi; Falk Hildebrand; Florian Kokoszka; Cyrille Lepoivre; Gipsi Lima-Mendez; Julie Poulain; Bonnie T. Poulos; Marta Royo-Llonch; Hugo Sarmento; Sara Vieira-Silva; Céline Dimier; Marc Picheral; Sarah Searson; Stefanie Kandels-Lewis; Emmanuel Boss; Michael Follows; Lee Karp-Boss; Uros Krzic; Emmanuel G. Reynaud; Christian Sardet; Mike Sieracki; Didier Velayoudon; Chris Bowler; Colomban De Vargas; Gabriel Gorsky; Nigel Grimsley; Pascal Hingamp; Daniele Iudicone; Olivier Jaillon; Fabrice Not; Hiroyuki Ogata; Stephane Pesant; Sabrina Speich

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Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

Tara Oceans Coordinators, Shinichi Sunagawa, Luis Pedro Coelho, Samuel Chaffron, Jens Roat Kultima, Karine Labadie, Guillem Salazar, Bardya Djahanschiri, Georg Zeller, Daniel R. Mende, Adriana Alberti, Francisco M. Cornejo-Castillo, Paul I. Costea, Corinne Cruaud, Francesco D'Ovidio, Stefan Engelen, Isabel Ferrera, Josep M. Gasol, Lionel Guidi, Falk HildebrandFlorian Kokoszka, Cyrille Lepoivre, Gipsi Lima-Mendez, Julie Poulain, Bonnie T. Poulos, Marta Royo-Llonch, Hugo Sarmento, Sara Vieira-Silva, Céline Dimier, Marc Picheral, Sarah Searson, Stefanie Kandels-Lewis, Emmanuel Boss, Michael Follows, Lee Karp-Boss, Uros Krzic, Emmanuel G. Reynaud, Christian Sardet, Mike Sieracki, Didier Velayoudon, Chris Bowler, Colomban De Vargas, Gabriel Gorsky, Nigel Grimsley, Pascal Hingamp, Daniele Iudicone, Olivier Jaillon, Fabrice Not, Hiroyuki Ogata, Stephane Pesant, Sabrina Speich

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Microbes are dominant drivers of biogeochemical processes, yet drawing a global picture of functional diversity, microbial community structure, and their ecological determinants remains a grand challenge. We analyzed 7.2 terabases of metagenomic data from 243 Tara Oceans samples from 68 locations in epipelagic and mesopelagic waters across the globe to generate an ocean microbial reference gene catalog with >40 million nonredundant, mostly novel sequences from viruses, prokaryotes, and picoeukaryotes. Using 139 prokaryote-enriched samples, containing >35,000 species, we show vertical stratification with epipelagic community composition mostly driven by temperature rather than other environmental factors or geography. We identify ocean microbial core functionality and reveal that >73% of its abundance is shared with the human gut microbiome despite the physicochemical differences between these two ecosystems.

Original language	English
Article number	1261359
Journal	Science
Volume	348
Issue number	6237
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261359
Publication status	Published - 22 May 2015
Externally published	Yes

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Tara Oceans Coordinators, Sunagawa, S., Coelho, L. P., Chaffron, S., Kultima, J. R., Labadie, K., Salazar, G., Djahanschiri, B., Zeller, G., Mende, D. R., Alberti, A., Cornejo-Castillo, F. M., Costea, P. I., Cruaud, C., D'Ovidio, F., Engelen, S., Ferrera, I., Gasol, J. M., Guidi, L., ... Speich, S. (2015). Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome. Science, 348(6237), Article 1261359. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1261359

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