Diversity and distribution of marine heterotrophic bacteria from a large culture collection ...

• Main Authors: Sanz-Sáez, Isabel, Salazar, Guillem, Sánchez, Pablo, Lara, Elena, Royo-Llonch, Marta, Sà, Elisabet L., Lucena, Teresa, Pujalte, María J., Vaqué, Dolors, Duarte, Carlos M., Gasol, Josep M., Pedrós-Alió, Carlos, Sánchez, Olga, Acinas, Silvia G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: figshare 2020
• Subjects: Microbiology; FOS Biological sciences; Oceanography; FOS Earth and related environmental sciences; Arctic; South Atlantic Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.c.5058382.v1; https://springernature.figshare.com/collections/Diversity_and_distribution_of_marine_heterotrophic_bacteria_from_a_large_culture_collection/5058382/1

Abstract Background Isolation of marine microorganisms is fundamental to gather information about their physiology, ecology and genomic content. To date, most of the bacterial isolation efforts have focused on the photic ocean leaving the deep ocean less explored. We have created a marine culture collection of heterotrophic bacteria (MARINHET) using a standard marine medium comprising a total of 1561 bacterial strains, and covering a variety of oceanographic regions from different seasons and years, from 2009 to 2015. Specifically, our marine collection contains isolates from both photic (817) and aphotic layers (744), including the mesopelagic (362) and the bathypelagic (382), from the North Western Mediterranean Sea, the North and South Atlantic Ocean, the Indian, the Pacific, and the Arctic Oceans. We described the taxonomy, the phylogenetic diversity and the biogeography of a fraction of the marine culturable microorganisms to enhance our knowledge about which heterotrophic marine isolates are ...