A global ocean atlas of eukaryotic genes

Quentin Carradec, Eric Pelletier (), Corinne Da Silva, Adriana Alberti, Yoann Seeleuthner, Romain Blanc-Mathieu, Gipsi Lima-Mendez, Fabio Rocha, Leila Tirichine, Karine Labadie, Amos Kirilovsky, Alexis Bertrand, Stefan Engelen, Mohammed-Amin Madoui, Raphaël Méheust, Julie Poulain, Sarah Romac, Daniel J. Richter, Genki Yoshikawa, Céline Dimier, Stefanie Kandels-Lewis, Marc Picheral, Sarah Searson, Olivier Jaillon, Jean-Marc Aury, Eric Karsenti, Matthew B. Sullivan, Shinichi Sunagawa, Peer Bork, Fabrice Not, Pascal Hingamp, Jeroen Raes, Lionel Guidi, Hiroyuki Ogata, Colomban Vargas, Daniele Iudicone, Chris Bowler () and Patrick Wincker ()
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Quentin Carradec: Genoscope
Eric Pelletier: Genoscope
Corinne Da Silva: Genoscope
Adriana Alberti: Genoscope
Yoann Seeleuthner: Genoscope
Romain Blanc-Mathieu: Kyoto University
Gipsi Lima-Mendez: KU Leuven
Fabio Rocha: INSERM U1024
Leila Tirichine: INSERM U1024
Karine Labadie: Genoscope
Amos Kirilovsky: Genoscope
Alexis Bertrand: Genoscope
Stefan Engelen: Genoscope
Mohammed-Amin Madoui: Genoscope
Raphaël Méheust: INSERM U1024
Julie Poulain: Genoscope
Sarah Romac: CNRS, UMR 7144
Daniel J. Richter: CNRS, UMR 7144
Genki Yoshikawa: Kyoto University
Céline Dimier: INSERM U1024
Stefanie Kandels-Lewis: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Marc Picheral: Observatoire Océanologique
Sarah Searson: University of Hawaii
Olivier Jaillon: Genoscope
Jean-Marc Aury: Genoscope
Eric Karsenti: INSERM U1024
Matthew B. Sullivan: Ohio State University
Shinichi Sunagawa: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Peer Bork: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Fabrice Not: CNRS, UMR 7144
Pascal Hingamp: MIO
Jeroen Raes: KU Leuven
Lionel Guidi: Observatoire Océanologique
Hiroyuki Ogata: Kyoto University
Colomban Vargas: CNRS, UMR 7144
Daniele Iudicone: Villa Comunale
Chris Bowler: INSERM U1024
Patrick Wincker: Genoscope

Nature Communications, 2018, vol. 9, issue 1, 1-13

Abstract: Abstract 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. The individual sequence reads cluster into 116 million unigenes representing the largest reference collection of eukaryotic transcripts from any single biome. The catalog is used to unveil functions expressed by eukaryotic marine plankton, and to assess their functional biogeography. Almost half of the sequences have no similarity with known proteins, and a great number belong to new gene families with a restricted distribution in the ocean. Overall, the resource provides the foundations for exploring the roles of marine eukaryotes in ocean ecology and biogeochemistry.

Date: 2018
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