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前不久,一支跨国科学团队搭乘“塔拉”号科考帆船,历时3年半时间完成环球之旅。他们在全球210处海洋科考点,共采集了大约35 000种浮游生物标本。科研团队发现海洋中的浮游生物远比之前所知道的更加多样化,除浮游植物和动物外,还包括细菌、病毒及其他微生物。他们首次明确了各种浮游生物的全球分布情况,并创制了一个海洋参照基因编目,数量超过4千万,其中大多是新基因,这是迄
Not long ago, a transnational scientific team took the “Tara” test sailboat, which lasted three and a half years to complete the journey around the world. At 210 marine sites worldwide, they collected about 35,000 species of plankton. The team found that plankton in the oceans are far more diverse than previously known, and include bacteria, viruses and other microbes in addition to phytoplankton and animals. For the first time, they identified the global distribution of various plankton and created a catalog of marine reference genes that number more than 40 million, mostly new genes, which is