Metagenomics

Entanglement of hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in the ocean
Knowledge of Earth’s microbiomes’ capacity to degrade aromatic compounds is limited by the lack of accurate tools for …
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Marine picoplankton metagenomes and MAGs from eleven vertical profiles obtained by the Malaspina Expedition
The Ocean microbiome has a crucial role in Earth’s biogeochemical cycles. During the last decade, global cruises such as Tara Oceans …
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A Metagenomic and Amplicon Sequencing Combined Approach Reveals the Best Primers to Study Marine Aerobic Anoxygenic Phototrophs
Studies based on protein-coding genes are essential to describe the diversity within bacterial functional groups. In the case of …
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Water mass age structures the auxiliary metabolic gene content of free-living and particle-attached deep ocean viral communities
Abstract Background Viruses play important roles in the ocean’s biogeochemical cycles. Yet, deep ocean viruses are one of the most …
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Abiotic selection of microbial genome size in the global ocean
Strong purifying selection is considered a major evolutionary force behind small microbial genomes in the resource-poor photic ocean. …
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A consensus protocol for the recovery of mercury methylation genes from metagenomes
Mercury (Hg) methylation genes (hgcAB) mediate the formation of the toxic methylmercury and have been identified from diverse …
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Inter-comparison of marine microbiome sampling protocols
Research on marine microbial communities is growing, but studies are hard to compare because of variation in seawater sampling …
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Ecological and functional capabilities of an uncultured Kordia sp.
Cultivable bacteria represent only a fraction of the diversity in microbial communities. However, the official procedures for …
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Malaspina Expedition
Circumnavigation of BIO Hespérides 2010-2011
MERcury CLean-Up system based on Bioremediation by marine bacteria (MER-CLUB)
Marine microorganisms hold the genetic potential for Hg detoxification. MER-CLUB projects aims to unreveil and exploit it for the bioremediation of Hg-contaminated marine sediments.
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