Biogeographic partitioning of Southern Ocean microorganisms revealed by metagenomics

• Published in: Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Wilkins, D, Lauro, FM, Williams, TJ, Demaere, MZ, Brown, MV, Hoffman, JM, Andrews-Pfannkoch, C, Mcquaid, JB, Riddle, MJ, Rintoul, SR, Cavicchioli, R
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
• Subjects: Biological Sciences; Ecology; Marine and Estuarine Ecology (incl. Marine Ichthyology); Austral; Mertz Glacier; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12035; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23199136; http://ecite.utas.edu.au/87629

We performed a metagenomic survey (6.6 Gbp of 454 sequence data) of Southern Ocean (SO) microorganisms during the austral summer of 20072008, examining the genomic signatures of communities across a latitudinal transect from Hobart (44S) to the Mertz Glacier, Antarctica (67S). Operational taxonomic...