Microbes are dominant drivers of biogeochemical processes, yet drawing a global picture of
functional diversity, microbial community structure, and their ecological determinants …

Marine plankton support global biological and geochemical processes. Surveys of their
biodiversity have hitherto been geographically restricted and have not accounted for the full …

Microbes drive most ecosystems and are modulated by viruses that impact their lifespan,
gene flow, and metabolic outputs. However, ecosystem-level impacts of viral community …

Species interaction networks are shaped by abiotic and biotic factors. Here, as part of the
Tara Oceans project, we studied the photic zone interactome using environmental factors and …

The biological carbon pump is the process by which CO 2 is transformed to organic carbon
via photosynthesis, exported through sinking particles, and finally sequestered in the deep …

Ocean microbes drive biogeochemical cycling on a global scale 1 . However, this cycling is
constrained by viruses that affect community composition, metabolic activity, and …

The Tara Oceans expedition (2009–2013) sampled contrasting ecosystems of the world
oceans, collecting environmental data and plankton, from viruses to metazoans, for later …

The ocean is home to myriad small planktonic organisms that underpin the functioning of
marine ecosystems. However, their spatial patterns of diversity and the underlying drivers …

While our knowledge about the roles of microbes and viruses in the ocean has increased
tremendously due to recent advances in genomics and metagenomics, research on marine …

Ocean microbial communities strongly influence the biogeochemistry, food webs, and climate
of our planet. Despite recent advances in understanding their taxonomic and genomic …