Biogeographic partitioning of Southern Ocean microorganisms revealed by metagenomics

• Published in: Environmental Microbiology
• Main Authors: Wilkins, D, Lauro, FM, Williams, TJ, De Maere, M, Brown, MV, Hoffman, JM, Andrews-Pfannkoch, C, McQuaid, J, Riddle, M, Rintoul, S, Cavicchioli, R, DeMaere, Matthew
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2013
• Subjects: 3107 Microbiology; 31 Biological Sciences; 3103 Ecology; 14 Life Below Water; Amino Acids; Branched-Chain; Bacteria; Biodiversity; Cyanobacteria; Eukaryota; Metagenomics; Oceans and Seas; Phylogeny; RNA; Ribosomal; 16S; Seawater; Water Microbiology; anzsrc-for: 3107 Microbiology; anzsrc-for: 31 Biological Sciences; anzsrc-for: 3103 Ecology; anzsrc-for: 060408 Genomics; anzsrc-for: 060504 Microbial Ecology; anzsrc-for: 060302 Biogeography and Phylogeography; anzsrc-for: 0603 Evolutionary Biology; anzsrc-for: 0605 Microbiology; Austral; Mertz Glacier; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/unsworks_49934; https://unsworks.unsw.edu.au/bitstreams/f500578f-460a-4c6b-8149-94cf9feb598e/download; https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.12035

We performed a metagenomic survey (6.6 Gbp 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 taxonom...