Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere". Export

@article{citeulike:791438, abstract = {The evolution of marine microbes over billions of years predicts that the composition of microbial communities should be much greater than the published estimates of a few thousand distinct kinds of microbes per liter of seawater. By adopting a massively parallel tag sequencing strategy, we show that bacterial communities of deep water masses of the North Atlantic and diffuse flow hydrothermal vents are one to two orders of magnitude more complex than previously reported for any microbial environment. A relatively small number of different populations dominate all samples, but thousands of low-abundance populations account for most of the observed phylogenetic diversity. This "rare biosphere" is very ancient and may represent a nearly inexhaustible source of genomic innovation. Members of the rare biosphere are highly divergent from each other and, at different times in earth's history, may have had a profound impact on shaping planetary processes.}, address = {Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543.}, author = {Sogin, Mitchell L. and Morrison, Hilary G. and Huber, Julie A. and Mark Welch, David and Huse, Susan M. and Neal, Phillip R. and Arrieta, Jesus M. and Herndl, Gerhard J.}, citeulike-article-id = {791438}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605127103}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/103/32/12115.abstract}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.pnas.org/content/103/32/12115.full.pdf}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/103/32/12115}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16880384}, citeulike-linkout-5 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=16880384}, day = {8}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.0605127103}, issn = {0027-8424}, journal = {Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America}, keywords = {454, diversity, pyrosequencing}, month = {August}, number = {32}, pages = {12115--12120}, posted-at = {2008-11-24 18:40:48}, priority = {2}, title = {Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere".}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605127103}, volume = {103}, year = {2006} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:791438 L3 - citeulike-article-id:791438 N2 - The evolution of marine microbes over billions of years predicts that the composition of microbial communities should be much greater than the published estimates of a few thousand distinct kinds of microbes per liter of seawater. By adopting a massively parallel tag sequencing strategy, we show that bacterial communities of deep water masses of the North Atlantic and diffuse flow hydrothermal vents are one to two orders of magnitude more complex than previously reported for any microbial environment. A relatively small number of different populations dominate all samples, but thousands of low-abundance populations account for most of the observed phylogenetic diversity. This "rare biosphere" is very ancient and may represent a nearly inexhaustible source of genomic innovation. Members of the rare biosphere are highly divergent from each other and, at different times in earth's history, may have had a profound impact on shaping planetary processes. IS - 32 JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America SN - 0027-8424 AD - Josephine Bay Paul Center, Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, 7 MBL Street, Woods Hole, MA 02543. EP - 12120 TI - Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored "rare biosphere". VL - 103 SP - 12115 KW - 454 KW - diversity KW - pyrosequencing AU - Sogin, Mitchell AU - Morrison, Hilary AU - Huber, Julie AU - Mark Welch, David AU - Huse, Susan AU - Neal, Phillip AU - Arrieta, Jesus AU - Herndl, Gerhard PY - 2006/08/08/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0605127103 ER -