Different processes shape prokaryotic and picoeukaryotic assemblages in the sunlit ocean microbiome
Ramiro Logares, Ina M. Deutschmann, Caterina. R. Giner, Anders K. Krabberød, Thomas S. B. Schmidt, Laura Rubinat-Ripoll, Mireia Mestre, Guillem Salazar, Clara Ruiz-González, Marta Sebastián, Colomban de Vargas, Silvia G. Acinas, Carlos M. Duarte, Josep M. Gasol, Ramon Massana
This study quantifies how selection, dispersal, and drift shape prokaryotic and picoeukaryotic communities in the sunlit ocean, finding dispersal dominates picoeukaryotes while selection and dispersal balance prokaryotes.
bioRxiv · Jul 23, 2018 · PreprintEcology