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 …

Phytoplankton in the Tara Ocean

JJ Pierella Karlusich, FM Ibarbalz… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Photosynthesis evolved in the ocean more than 2 billion years ago and is now performed by
a wide range of evolutionarily distinct organisms, including both prokaryotes and …

Systematic revision of Symbiodiniaceae highlights the antiquity and diversity of coral endosymbionts

TC LaJeunesse, JE Parkinson, PW Gabrielson… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
The advent of molecular data has transformed the science of organizing and studying life on
Earth. Genetics-based evidence provides fundamental insights into the diversity, ecology …

Building consensus around the assessment and interpretation of Symbiodiniaceae diversity

SW Davies, MH Gamache, LI Howe-Kerr, NG Kriefall… - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Dinoflagellates in the family Symbiodiniaceae occupy multiple ecological niches on tropical,
subtropical, and temperate reefs, ranging from species that are exclusively free-living to …

Perspectives from ten years of protist studies by high‐throughput metabarcoding

L Santoferrara, F Burki, S Filker… - Journal of Eukaryotic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
During the last decade, high‐throughput metabarcoding became routine for analyzing
protistan diversity and distributions in nature. Amid a multitude of exciting findings, scientists …

Novel insights in seasonal dynamics and co-existence patterns of phytoplankton and micro-eukaryotes in drinking water reservoir, Northwest China: DNA data and …

H Zhang, Y Yang, X Liu, T Huang, B Ma, N Li… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Although associations between phytoplankton and micro-eukaryotes have been studied in
aquatic ecosystems, there are still knowledge gaps in comprehending their dynamics and …

Population genetics of reef coral endosymbionts (Symbiodinium, Dinophyceae)

DJ Thornhill, EJ Howells, DC Wham… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Symbiodinium is a diverse genus of unicellular dinoflagellate symbionts associating with
various marine protists and invertebrates. Although the broadscale diversity and …

An improved primer set and amplification protocol with increased specificity and sensitivity targeting the Symbiodinium ITS2 region

BCC Hume, M Ziegler, J Poulain, X Pochon, S Romac… - PeerJ, 2018 - peerj.com
Abstract The Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2) rRNA gene is a commonly targeted
genetic marker to assess diversity of Symbiodinium, a dinoflagellate genus of algal …

Description of Freudenthalidium gen. nov. and Halluxium gen. nov. to Formally Recognize Clades Fr3 and H as Genera in the Family Symbiodiniaceae …

MR Nitschke, SC Craveiro, C Brandão… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The Symbiodiniaceae are a family of marine dinoflagellates known mostly for their
endosymbiotic interactions with invertebrates and protists, but facultatively and exclusively …

Environmental vulnerability of the global ocean epipelagic plankton community interactome

S Chaffron, E Delage, M Budinich, D Vintache… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Marine plankton form complex communities of interacting organisms at the base of the food
web, which sustain oceanic biogeochemical cycles and help regulate climate. Although …