Metagenomics

Low-oxygen freshwaters as ecological niches for mercury methylators
Methylmercury (MeHg) is a hazardous neurotoxin, predominantly formed by microbial transformation of inorganic mercury in …
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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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NifH gene amplicon sequencing and metagenomic approaches are complementary in assessing diazotroph diversity
Exploring the diversity of diazotrophs is key to understanding their role in supplying fixed nitrogen that supports marine …
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Omics to Study and Manage Aquatic Environments: A Snapshot From the AquaEcOmics Meeting (Evian-les-Bains, 2025)
The AquaEcOmics meeting brought together 280 scientists applying omics tools to aquatic research in March 2025 (Evian-les-Bains, …
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Protist genomics: key to understanding eukaryotic evolution
All eukaryotes other than animals, plants, and fungi are protists. Protists are highly diverse and found in nearly all environments, …
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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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Decoding populations in the ocean microbiome
Understanding the characteristics and structure of populations is fundamental to comprehending ecosystem processes and evolutionary …
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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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