Marine plankton support global biological and geochemical processes. Surveys of their
biodiversity have hitherto been geographically restricted and have not accounted for the full …

… Colomban De Vargas, … Colomban De Vargas, … Citation: Karsenti E, Acinas SG, Bork
P, Bowler C, De Vargas C, Raes J, et al. (2011) A Holistic Approach to Marine Eco-Systems …

A planetary-scale understanding of the ocean ecosystem, particularly in light of climate
change, is crucial. Here, we review the work of Tara Oceans, an international, multidisciplinary …

Microbes are dominant drivers of biogeochemical processes, yet drawing a global picture of
functional diversity, microbial community structure, and their ecological determinants …

Species interaction networks are shaped by abiotic and biotic factors. Here, as part of the
Tara Oceans project, we studied the photic zone interactome using environmental factors and …

Coccolithophores have influenced the global climate for over 200 million years 1 . These
marine phytoplankton can account for 20 per cent of total carbon fixation in some systems 2 . …

Pico-sized eukaryotes play key roles in the functioning of marine ecosystems, but we still
have a limited knowledge on their ecology and evolution. The MAST-4 lineage is of particular …

Universal taxonomic frameworks have been critical tools to structure the fields of botany,
zoology, mycology, and bacteriology as well as their large research communities. Animals, …

Sequencing of 16S rDNA polymerase chain reaction ( PCR ) amplicons is the most common
approach for investigating environmental prokaryotic diversity, despite the known biases …

The interrogation of genetic markers in environmental meta-barcoding studies is currently
seriously hindered by the lack of taxonomically curated reference data sets for the targeted …