Tara Oceans: towards global ocean ecosystems biology

S Sunagawa, SG Acinas, P Bork, C Bowler… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
A planetary-scale understanding of the ocean ecosystem, particularly in light of climate
change, is crucial. Here, we review the work of Tara Oceans, an international …

Global trends in marine plankton diversity across kingdoms of life

FM Ibarbalz, N Henry, MC Brandão, S Martini… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
The ocean is home to myriad small planktonic organisms that underpin the functioning of
marine ecosystems. However, their spatial patterns of diversity and the underlying drivers …

The utility of macroecological rules for microbial biogeography

JR Dickey, RA Swenie, SC Turner… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Macroecological rules have been developed for plants and animals that describe large-
scale distributional patterns and attempt to explain the underlying physiological and …

Selection, drift and community interactions shape microbial biogeographic patterns in the Pacific Ocean

F Milke, I Wagner-Doebler, G Wienhausen… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Despite accumulating data on microbial biogeographic patterns in terrestrial and aquatic
environments, we still lack a comprehensive understanding of how these patterns establish …

Global drivers of eukaryotic plankton biogeography in the sunlit ocean

G Sommeria-Klein, R Watteaux, FM Ibarbalz… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Eukaryotic plankton are a core component of marine ecosystems with exceptional taxonomic
and ecological diversity, yet how their ecology interacts with the environment to drive global …

Gene expression changes and community turnover differentially shape the global ocean metatranscriptome

G Salazar, L Paoli, A Alberti, J Huerta-Cepas… - Cell, 2019 - cell.com
Ocean microbial communities strongly influence the biogeochemistry, food webs, and
climate of our planet. Despite recent advances in understanding their taxonomic and …

Functional traits resolve mechanisms governing the assembly and distribution of nitrogen-cycling microbial communities in the global ocean

W Song, J Liu, W Qin, J Huang, X Yu, M Xu, D Stahl… - MBio, 2022 - Am Soc Microbiol
Microorganisms drive much of the marine nitrogen (N) cycle, which jointly controls the
primary production in the global ocean. However, our understanding of the microbial …

Deep learning of a bacterial and archaeal universal language of life enables transfer learning and illuminates microbial dark matter

A Hoarfrost, A Aptekmann, G Farfañuk… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The majority of microbial genomes have yet to be cultured, and most proteins identified in
microbial genomes or environmental sequences cannot be functionally annotated. As a …

The global ocean ship-based hydrographic investigations program (GO-SHIP): a platform for integrated multidisciplinary ocean science

BM Sloyan, R Wanninkhof, M Kramp… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Global Ocean Ship-Based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP) provides a
globally coordinated network and oversight of 55 sustained decadal repeat hydrographic …

Ecological mechanisms and current systems shape the modular structure of the global oceans' prokaryotic seascape

F Milke, J Meyerjürgens, M Simon - Nature Communications, 2023 - nature.com
Major biogeographic features of the microbial seascape in the oceans have been
established and their underlying ecological mechanisms in the (sub) tropical oceans and the …