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Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome

Shinichi Sunagawa,Luís Pedro Coelho,Samuel Chaffron,Jens Roat Kultima,Karine Labadie,Guillem Salazar,Bardya Djahanschiri,Georg Zeller,Daniel Mende,Adriana Alberti,Francisco M. Cornejo‐Castillo,Paul Igor Costea,Corinne Cruaud,Francesco d’Ovidio,Stéfan 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,Chris Bowler,Colomban de Vargas,Gabriel Gorsky,Nigel Grimsley,Pascal Hingamp,Daniele Iudicone,Olivier Jaillon,Fabrice Not,Hiroyuki Ogata,Stéphane Pesant,Sabrina Speich,Lars Stemmann,Matthew B. Sullivan,Jean Weissenbach,Patrick Wincker,Eric Karsenti,Jeroen Raes,Silvia G. Acinas,Peer Bork,Emmanuel Boss,Chris Bowler,Michael J. Follows,Lee Karp‐Boss,Uroš Kržič,Emmanuel G. Reynaud,Christian Sardet,Mike Sieracki,Didier Velayoudon

Pelagic zone

Mesopelagic zone

Metagenomics

2015

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.

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“Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome” is a paper by Shinichi Sunagawa Luís Pedro Coelho Samuel Chaffron Jens Roat Kultima Karine Labadie Guillem Salazar Bardya Djahanschiri Georg Zeller Daniel Mende Adriana Alberti Francisco M. Cornejo‐Castillo Paul Igor Costea Corinne Cruaud Francesco d’Ovidio Stéfan 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 Chris Bowler Colomban de Vargas Gabriel Gorsky Nigel Grimsley Pascal Hingamp Daniele Iudicone Olivier Jaillon Fabrice Not Hiroyuki Ogata Stéphane Pesant Sabrina Speich Lars Stemmann Matthew B. Sullivan Jean Weissenbach Patrick Wincker Eric Karsenti Jeroen Raes Silvia G. Acinas Peer Bork Emmanuel Boss Chris Bowler Michael J. Follows Lee Karp‐Boss Uroš Kržič Emmanuel G. Reynaud Christian Sardet Mike Sieracki Didier Velayoudon published in 2015. It has an Open Access status of “green”. You can read and download a PDF Full Text of this paper here.