Biogeographic partitioning of Southern Ocean microorganisms revealed by metagenomics

• 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: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Microbiology; Bacteria; Cyanobacteria; Amino Acids; Branched-Chain; RNA; Ribosomal; 16S; Water Microbiology; Biodiversity; Seawater; Phylogeny; Oceans and Seas; Metagenomics; Eukaryota; Austral; Mertz Glacier; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10453/117633

We performed a metagenomic survey (6.6Gbp of 454 sequence data) of Southern Ocean (SO) microorganisms during the austral summer of 2007-2008, examining the genomic signatures of communities across a latitudinal transect from Hobart (44°S) to the Mertz Glacier, Antarctica (67°S). Operational taxonomi...