Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere”

Sogin, Mitchell L.; Morrison, Hilary G.; Huber, Julie A.; Welch, David Mark; Huse, Susan M.; Neal, Phillip R.; Arrieta, Jesus M.; Herndl, Gerhard J.

doi:10.1073/pnas.0605127103

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Microbial diversity in the deep sea and the underexplored “rare biosphere”

Sogin, Mitchell L., Morrison, Hilary G., Huber, Julie A., Welch, David Mark, Huse, Susan M., Neal, Phillip R., Arrieta, Jesus M., Herndl, Gerhard J.·2006·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

DOI 10.1073/pnas.0605127103

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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.

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Authors: Sogin, M. L., Morrison, H. G., Huber, J. A., Welch, D. M., Huse, S. M., Neal, P. R., Arrieta, J. M., & Herndl, G. J.
Venue: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publisher: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published: 2006-08-08
Volume: 103
Issue: 32
Pages: 12115-12120
ISSN: 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0605127103
OpenAlex: W2087671769
Cited by: 3,701
References: 4
FWCI: 105.41
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed

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