Abstract
Many sequences from picoeukaryotes were found in DNA sequence data assembled from Sargasso seawater.
Highlights
With genome sequencing becoming more and more affordable, environmental shotgun sequencing of the microorganisms present in an environment generates a challenging amount of sequence data for the scientific community
These sequence data enable the diversity of the microbial world and the metabolic pathways within environments to be investigated [3,4,5], a previously unthinkable achievement when using traditional approaches, since it has been estimated that 99% of marine microorganisms can not be cultured in the laboratory [6]
To retrieve the eukaryotic scaffolds from the Sargasso Sea Database (SSD), we used a reference dataset for each gene chosen as an anchor
Summary
With genome sequencing becoming more and more affordable, environmental shotgun sequencing of the microorganisms present in an environment generates a challenging amount of sequence data for the scientific community These sequence data enable the diversity of the microbial world and the metabolic pathways within an environment to be investigated, a previously unthinkable achievement when using traditional approaches. Genome sequencing is becoming more and more affordable and shotgun sequencing using DNA from environmental microbial communities provides the scientific community with a challenging amount of sequence data (see [1,2], for a review) These sequence data enable the diversity of the microbial world and the metabolic pathways within environments to be investigated [3,4,5], a previously unthinkable achievement when using traditional approaches, since it has been estimated that 99% of marine microorganisms can not be cultured in the laboratory [6]. The two genera Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus were clearly dominant, as described for many other areas [9,13]
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