Eukaryotic genomes from a global metagenomic data set illuminate trophic modes and biogeography of ocean plankton.

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Single-celled eukaryotes play ecologically significant roles in the marine environment, yet fundamental questions about their biodiversity, ecological function, and interactions remain. Environmental sequencing enables researchers to document naturally occurring protistan communities, without culturing bias, yet metagenomic and metatranscriptomic sequencing approaches cannot separate individual species from communities. To more completely capture the genomic content of mixed protistan populations, we can create bins of sequences that represent the same organism (metagenome-assembled genomes [MAGs]). We developed the EukHeist pipeline, which automates the binning of population-level eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes from metagenomic reads. We show exciting insight into w

SUBMITTER: Alexander H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10746220 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature