Planktonic microbial eukaryotes in polar surface waters: recent advances in high-throughput sequencing

Qian Liu; Qiannan Zhao; Andrew McMinn; Eun Jin Yang; Yong Jiang

doi:10.1007/s42995-020-00062-y

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Planktonic microbial eukaryotes in polar surface waters: recent advances in high-throughput sequencing

Qian Liu^1,2,3,
Qiannan Zhao^1,2,3,
Andrew McMinn^1,2,4,
Eun Jin Yang⁵,
Yong Jiang^1,2,3

1 Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;
2 College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;
3 Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;
4 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia;
5 Division of Polar Ocean Environment, Korea Polar Research Institute, 213-3 Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406-840, Korea

Received Date: 2020-02-14

Fund Project:
This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 41676178), the Marine S&T Fund of Shandong Province for Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), China (nos. 2018SDKJ0104-4, 2018SDKJ0406-6), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (no. 2017YFA0603200), and the Grant from Education Department of Shandong Province (S190007170001).

Abstract

Marine microbial eukaryotes are important primary producers and play critical roles in key biogeochemical cycles. Recent advances in sequencing technology have focused attention on the extent of microbial biodiversity, revealing a huge, previously underestimated phylogenetic diversity with many new lineages. This technology has now become the most important tool to understand the ecological significance of this huge and novel diversity in polar oceans. In particular, high-throughput sequencing technologies have been successfully applied to enumerate and compare marine microbial diversity in polar environments. Here, a brief overview of polar microbial eukaryote diversity, as revealed by in-situ surveys of the high-throughput sequencing on 18S rRNA gene, is presented. Using these ‘omic’ approaches, further attention still needs to be focused on diferences between specific locations and/or entire polar oceans and on bipolar comparisons of diversity and distribution.
- Marine microbial eukaryotes,
- High-throughput sequencing,
- Molecular surveys,
- Bipolar

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Planktonic microbial eukaryotes in polar surface waters: recent advances in high-throughput sequencing

1 Institute of Evolution and Marine Biodiversity, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;

2 College of Marine Life Sciences, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;

3 Key Lab of Polar Oceanography and Global Ocean Change, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266003, China;

4 Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia;

5 Division of Polar Ocean Environment, Korea Polar Research Institute, 213-3 Songdo-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406-840, Korea

Received Date: 2020-02-14

Fund Project: This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 41676178), the Marine S&T Fund of Shandong Province for Pilot National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology (Qingdao), China (nos. 2018SDKJ0104-4, 2018SDKJ0406-6), the National Key Research and Development Program of China (no. 2017YFA0603200), and the Grant from Education Department of Shandong Province (S190007170001).

Abstract: Marine microbial eukaryotes are important primary producers and play critical roles in key biogeochemical cycles. Recent advances in sequencing technology have focused attention on the extent of microbial biodiversity, revealing a huge, previously underestimated phylogenetic diversity with many new lineages. This technology has now become the most important tool to understand the ecological significance of this huge and novel diversity in polar oceans. In particular, high-throughput sequencing technologies have been successfully applied to enumerate and compare marine microbial diversity in polar environments. Here, a brief overview of polar microbial eukaryote diversity, as revealed by in-situ surveys of the high-throughput sequencing on 18S rRNA gene, is presented. Using these ‘omic’ approaches, further attention still needs to be focused on diferences between specific locations and/or entire polar oceans and on bipolar comparisons of diversity and distribution.

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