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Priorities for ocean microbiome research
Abreu, Andre; Bourgois, Etienne; Gristwood, Adam; Troublé, Romain; Acinas, Silvia G.; Bork, Peer; Boss, Emmanuel; Bowler, Chris; Budinich, MarkoStudying the ocean microbiome can inform international policies related to ocean governance, tackling climate change, ocean acidification and pollution, and can help promote achievement of multiple Sustainable Development Goals. Microbial communities have essential roles in ocean ecology and planetary health. Microbes participate in nutrient cycles, remove huge quantities of carbon dioxide from the air and supp...
The epibiotic life of the cosmopolitan diatom Fragilariopsis doliolus on hetero...
Bowler, Chris
Evolution and metabolic significance of the urea cycle in photosynthetic diatoms
Allen, Andrew E.; Dupont, Christopher L.; Oborník, Miroslav; Horák, Aleš; McCrow, John P.; Zheng, Hong; Johnson, Daniel A.; Hu, HanhuaDiatoms dominate the biomass of phytoplankton in nutrient-rich conditions and form the basis of some of the world’s most productive marine food webs1,2,3,4. The diatom nuclear genome contains genes with bacterial and plastid origins as well as genes of the secondary endosymbiotic host (the exosymbiont5)1,6,7,8,9,10, yet little is known about the relative contribution of each gene group to diatom metabolism. Her...
Leveraging metabolomics for functional investigations in sequenced marine diatoms
Fernie, Alisdair R.; Obata, Toshihiro; Allen, Andrew E.; Araujo, Wagner L.; Bowler, ChrisRecent years have witnessed the genomic decoding of a wide range of photosynthetic organisms from the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and the complex genomes of important crop species to single-celled marine phytoplankton. The comparative sequencing of green, red and brown algae has provided considerable insight into a number of important questions concerning their evolution, physiology and metabolism. The com...
Evolutionary origins and functions of the carotenoid biosynthetic pathway in ma...
Coesel, Sacha; Obornik, Miroslav; Varela, J.; Falciatore, Angela; Bowler, ChrisCarotenoids are produced by all photosynthetic organisms, where they play essential roles in light harvesting and photoprotection. The carotenoid biosynthetic pathway of diatoms is largely unstudied, but is of particular interest because these organisms have a very different evolutionary history with respect to the Plantae and are thought to be derived from an ancient secondary endosymbiosis between heterotroph...