@article{Sunagawa2015, abstract = { 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. }, author = {Sunagawa, Shinichi and d'Ovidio, Francesco and de Vargas, Colomban and Coelho, Luis Pedro and Kultima, Jens Roat and Chaffron, Samuel and Labadie, Karine and Salazar, Guillem and Zeller, Georg and Tara Oceans coordinators, (team) and Djahanschiri, Bardya and Mende, Daniel R. and Vargas, Colomban de and Alberti, Adriana and Cornejo-Castillo, Francisco M. and Costea, Paul I. and Cruaud, Corinne and D'Ovidio, F. and Engelen, Stefan and Jeroen, Raes and Ferrera, Isabel and Kokoszka, Florian and Gasol, Josep M. and Lepoivre, Cyrille and Guidi, Lionel and Hildebrand, Falk and Lima-Mendez, Gipsi and Poulain, Julie and Poulos, Bonnie T. and Royo-Llonch, Marta and Sarmento, Hugo and Vieira-Silva, Sara and Dimier, CeĢline and Picheral, Marc and Searson, Sarah and Kandels-Lewis, Stefanie and Bowler, Chris and Gorsky, Gabriel and Hingamp, Pascal and Grimsley, Nigel and Iudicone, Daniele and De Vargas, C. and Boss, E. and Jaillon, Olivier and Karp-Boss, L. and Not, Fabrice and Krzic, U. and Follows, M. and Ogata, Hiroyuki and Coordinators, Tara Oceans and Reynaud, E. G. and Hildebarnd, Falk and Pesant, Stephane and Sardet, C. and Speich, Sabrina and Sullivan, Metthew B. and Sieracki, M. and Stemmann, Lars and Velayoudon, D. and Weissenbach, Jean and Wincker, Patrick and Karsenti, Eric and Acinas, Silivia G. and Bork, Peer and Raes, J. and D. Ovidio, Francesco}, doi = {10.1126/science.1261359}, journal = {Science}, month = {may}, title = {Structure and function of the global ocean microbiome}, url = {https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Lionel_Guidi/publication/277140521_Ocean_plankton_Structure_and_function_of_the_global_ocean_microbiome/links/55641f8e08ae8c0cab36fb1d.pdf}, volume = {348}, year = {2015} }