A communal catalogue reveals Earth’s multiscale microbial diversity
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories · +170 more institutions
Abstract
Our growing awareness of the microbial world's importance and diversity contrasts starkly with our limited understanding of its fundamental structure. Despite recent advances in DNA sequencing, a lack of standardized protocols and common analytical frameworks impedes comparisons among studies, hindering the development of global inferences about microbial life on Earth. Here we present a meta-analysis of microbial community samples collected by hundreds of researchers for the Earth Microbiome Project. Coordinated protocols and new analytical methods, particularly the use of exact sequences instead of clustered operational taxonomic units, enable bacterial and archaeal ribosomal RNA gene sequences to be…
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 186.53
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 85
Authors
303- LTLuke Thompson
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratories, Northern Gulf Institute, University of California San Diego, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center, University of Southern Mississippi
- JGJon G. Sanders
University of California San Diego
- DMDaniel McDonald
University of California San Diego
- AAAmnon Amir
University of California San Diego
- JLJoshua Ladau
Gladstone Institutes, University of California, San Francisco
Topics & keywords
- Diversity (politics)
- Earth (classical element)
- Astrobiology
- Earth science
- Geography
- Evolutionary biology
- Biology
- Geology
- Life in Land
Funding
- NSNational Science FoundationAwards: 1053575, DE-AC02-06CH11357, BIO150043
- UDU.S. Department of EnergyAwards: ACI-1053575, AC02-06CH11357, contract DE-AC02-06CH11357, DE-AC02, 06CH11357, DE-AC02-06CH11357, DE-AC02-
- WMW. M. Keck FoundationAward: DT061413
- JTJohn Templeton FoundationAward: 44000
- MSMississippi State University
- NGNorthern Gulf Institute
- LFLawrence Foundation
- TFTula Foundation
- SRSight Research UKAwards: NE/K00168X/1, pml010007, pml010009
- NONational Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- NENatural Environment Research CouncilAwards: NE/K00168X/1, pml010009, pml010007
- ARAustralian Research Council
- ANArgonne National LaboratoryAwards: DE-AC02, 06CH11357, AC02-06CH11357
- NANOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory