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Delineating ecologically significant taxonomic units from global patterns of marine picocyanobacteria.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 14 Jun 2016
Farrant Gregory K, Doré Hugo, Cornejo-Castillo Francisco M, Partensky Frédéric, Ratin Morgane, Ostrowski Martin, Pitt Frances D, Wincker Patrick, Scanlan David J, Iudicone Daniele, Acinas Silvia G, Garczarek Laurence
Abstract excerpt
Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus are the two most abundant and widespread phytoplankton in the global ocean. To better understand the factors controlling their biogeography, a reference database of the high-resolution taxonomic marker petB, encoding cytochrome b6, was used to recruit reads out of 109 metagenomes from the Tara Oceans expedition. An unsuspected novel genetic diversity was unveiled within both...
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