Marta Royo-Llonch

TL;DR: This work identifies ocean microbial core functionality and reveals that >73% of its abundance is shared with the human gut microbiome despite the physicochemical differences between these two ecosystems.

TL;DR: It is found that environmental factors are incomplete predictors of community structure and associations across plankton functional types and phylogenetic groups to be nonrandomly distributed on the network and driven by both local and global patterns.

TL;DR: The relative contribution of gene expression changes to be significantly lower in polar than in non-polar waters and it is hypothesized that in polar regions, alterations in community activity in response to ocean warming will be driven more strongly by changes in organismal composition than by gene regulatory mechanisms.

TL;DR: This work investigates the latitudinal gradients and global predictors of plankton diversity across archaea, bacteria, eukaryotes, and major virus clades using both molecular and imaging data from Tara Oceans to show a decline of diversity for most planktonic groups toward the poles.

TL;DR: Detailed procedures applied for genomic data generation, from nucleic acids extraction to sequence production, are provided and registries of genomics datasets available at the European Nucleotide Archive are described.