Global distribution and diversity of marine Verrucomicrobia

• Published in: The ISME Journal Vol. 6; no. 8; pp. 1499 - 1505
• Main Authors: Freitas, Sara, Hatosy, Stephen, Fuhrman, Jed A, Huse, Susan M, Mark Welch, David B, Sogin, Mitchell L, Martiny, Adam C
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.08.2012; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 631/158/852; 631/326/2565/855; 631/326/41/2535; Bacteria; Biodiversity; Biogeochemical cycles; Biogeochemistry; Biogeography; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Census; Community composition; Ecology; Ecophysiology; Ecosystem; Environmental conditions; Evolutionary Biology; Geologic Sediments - chemistry; Geologic Sediments - microbiology; Habitat preferences; Life Sciences; Marine environment; Microbial Ecology; Microbial Genetics and Genomics; Microbiology; Nitrates; Original; original-article; Pacific Ocean; RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - genetics; Salinity; Sediments; Temperature; Verrucomicrobia; Verrucomicrobia - classification; Verrucomicrobia - genetics; Verrucomicrobia - physiology; Water column; Water depth; Water Microbiology; Pacific Ocean; INE, Pacific, California Current; ICoMM; bacterial communities

Verrucomicrobia is a bacterial phylum that is commonly detected in soil, but little is known about the distribution and diversity of this phylum in the marine environment. To address this, we analyzed the marine microbial community composition in 506 samples from the International Census of Marine M...