{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"submitter":["Zhong C"],"funding":["MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science","MEXT | Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)","MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)","Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee","Research Grants Council, University Grants Committee ()","Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou)","Southern Marine Science and Engineering Guangdong Laboratory (Guangzhou) ()","MEXT | Japan Science and Technology Agency"],"pagination":["e0031724"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC11575276"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["9(11)"],"pubmed_abstract":["Marine biofilms were newly revealed as a giant microbial diversity pool for global oceans. However, the cyanobacterial diversity in marine biofilms within the upper seawater column and its ecological and evolutionary implications remains undetermined. Here, we reconstructed a full picture of modern marine cyanobacteria habitats by re-analyzing 9.3 terabyte metagenomic data sets and 2,648 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). The abundances of cyanobacteria lineages exclusively detected in marine biofilms were up to ninefold higher than those in seawater at similar sample size. Analyses revealed that cyanobacteria in marine biofilms are specialists with strong geographical and environmental constraints on their genome and functional adaption, which is in stark contrast to the generalistic fe"],"journal":["mSystems"],"pubmed_title":["Marine biofilms: cyanobacteria factories for the global oceans."],"pmcid":["PMC11575276"],"funding_grant_id":["HKUST PDFS2223-6S03","2021HJ01, SMSEGL20SC01","19H05688, 18H04136","JPMJCR19S2"],"pubmed_authors":["Liu H","Yamanouchi S","Iwasaki W","Zhong C","Chen J","Cheng A","Hao W","Konhauser KO","Qian P-Y","Li Y","Wang R","Wei T","Zhou K"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Marine biofilms: cyanobacteria factories for the global oceans.","description":"Marine biofilms were newly revealed as a giant microbial diversity pool for global oceans. However, the cyanobacterial diversity in marine biofilms within the upper seawater column and its ecological and evolutionary implications remains undetermined. Here, we reconstructed a full picture of modern marine cyanobacteria habitats by re-analyzing 9.3 terabyte metagenomic data sets and 2,648 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs). The abundances of cyanobacteria lineages exclusively detected in marine biofilms were up to ninefold higher than those in seawater at similar sample size. Analyses revealed that cyanobacteria in marine biofilms are specialists with strong geographical and environmental constraints on their genome and functional adaption, which is in stark contrast to the generalistic fe","dates":{"release":"2024-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2024 Nov","modification":"2025-04-04T20:39:13.796Z","creation":"2025-04-04T20:39:13.796Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC11575276","cross_references":{"pubmed":["39404262"],"doi":["10.1128/msystems.00317-24"]}}