A global atlas of subsurface microbiomes reveals phylogenetic novelty, large scale biodiversity gradients, and a marine-terrestrial divide
S. Emil Ruff,
Isabella C Hrabe de Angelis,
Megan Mullis
et al.
Abstract:Subsurface environments constitute one of Earth's largest habitats for microbial life, yet differences between surface and subsurface microbiomes and between marine and terrestrial microbiomes remain unclear. We analyzed 478 archaeal and 1054 bacterial amplicon sequence datasets and 147 metagenomes from diverse and globally distributed surface and subsurface environments. Taxonomic analyses show that archaeal and bacterial diversity is similar in marine and terrestrial microbiomes at local to global scales. Ho… Show more
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