The Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling Expedition: Northwest Atlantic through Eastern Tropical Pacific. PLoS Biol 5: e77

• Main Authors: Douglas B. Rusch, Aaron L. Halpern, Granger Sutton, Karla B. Heidelberg, Shannon Williamson, Shibu Yooseph, Dongying Wu, Jonathan A. Eisen, Jeff M. Hoffman, Karin Remington, Karen Beeson, Bao Tran, Hamilton Smith, Holly Baden-tillson, Clare Stewart, Joyce Thorpe, Jason Freeman, Cynthia Andrews-pfannkoch, Joseph E. Venter, Kelvin Li, Saul Kravitz, John F. Heidelberg, Terry Utterback, Yu-hui Rogers, Luisa I. Falcón, Valeria Souza, Germán Bonilla-rosso, Luis E. Eguiarte, David M. Karl, Shubha Sathyendranath, Trevor Platt, Eldredge Bermingham, Victor Gallardo, Giselle Tamayo-castillo, Michael R. Ferrari, Robert L. Strausberg, Kenneth Nealson, Robert Friedman, Marvin Frazier, J. Craig Venter
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Pacific; Northwest Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.280.2022

The world’s oceans contain a complex mixture of micro-organisms that are for the most part, uncharacterized both genetically and biochemically. We report here a metagenomic study of the marine planktonic microbiota in which surface (mostly marine) water samples were analyzed as part of the Sorcerer II Global Ocean Sampling expedition.