Biogeography of biosynthetic gene clusters in the marine environment
Pereira, E,
Buttigieg, Pier Luigi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-3088,
Medema, M,
Yeong, M,
Kottmann, R,
Fernandez-Guerra, A and
Glöckner, Frank Oliver ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8528-9023
;
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pier.buttigieg [ at ] awi.de
Abstract
Marine microbial communities produce a high diversity of natural products encoded by Biosynthetic Gene Clusters (BGCs). So far
most of this metabolic diversity remains unknown, due to technical limitations in studying microorganisms. Metagenomics
represents a powerful approach to access the metabolic potential of microbial communities. In this work, we used the
metagenomic data from the TARA Oceans and Ocean Sampling Day sequencing campaigns, in order to study the biogeography of
BGCs in marine environments. These datasets offer a valuable opportunity to explore the unknown world of BGCs of marine
microbial communities, and the underlying mechanisms that structure the composition of these genes in the environment. It
represents the first biogeographic analysis of BGCs on marine environments on a global scale.
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Pereira, E,
Buttigieg, Pier Luigi ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4366-3088,
Medema, M,
Yeong, M,
Kottmann, R,
Fernandez-Guerra, A and
Glöckner, Frank Oliver ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8528-9023
;
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41st CIESM Conference, 12 Sep 2016 - 16 Sep 2016, Kiel, Germany.
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51051
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Pereira, E.
,
Buttigieg, P. L.
,
Medema, M.
,
Yeong, M.
,
Kottmann, R.
,
Fernandez-Guerra, A.
and
Glöckner, F. O.
(2016):
Biogeography of biosynthetic gene clusters in the marine environment
,
41st CIESM Conference,
Kiel, Germany,
12 September 2016 - 16 September 2016
.
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