ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2018
Sinking particles promote vertical connectivity in the ocean microbiome.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 106 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
106 citing papers in PubMed.
- Metagenomic Insights Into Red Sea Biodiversity Across the Web of Life.Environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- A horizontal connectivity mode in coastal oceans: transport overrides stratification to govern microbiome network stability.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2026Article
- Shaping research in marine functional connectivity for integrated and effective marine science and management.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026Review
- Changes in DOM Quality Determine Prokaryotic Activities and Extracellular Release in the NW Mediterranean Sea: An Experimental Approach.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Article
- Prokaryotic bias in surface ocean particles.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Stochastic resilience enables particle foraging in oligotrophic marine environments.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Comparison of Spatio-Temporal Dynamics and Composition in Size-Fractionated and Unfractionated Northwestern Atlantic Microbial Communities.Environmental microbiology reports · 2026Article
- Minimizing decompression and warming during deep seawater collection increases abundance and activity of autochthonous bacteria and archaea.The ISME journal · 2026Article
- Diversity and community structure of aerobic anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria are shaped by the deep chlorophyll maximum.ISME communications · 2026Article
- Microbial population structure along the water columns and sediments in the Diamantina and Kermadec trenches.BMC biology · 2025Article
- Vertical Structure and Functional Diversity of Microbial Communities in the Ross Sea, Antarctica.Microbial ecology · 2025Article
- Community differences and potential function along the particle size spectrum of microbes in the twilight zone.Microbiome · 2025Article
- Particle-size dependent of bacterial diversity associated with suspended particulate matter continuum in Lake Taihu.FEMS microbiology ecology · 2025Article
- Prokaryotic Communities Vary with Cultivation Modes of Shrimp (Microorganisms · 2025Article
- Size-fractionated metagenomic depth profiles from two sulfidic stations in the Chesapeake Bay.Microbiology resource announcements · 2025Article
- Particle-Associated Bacterioplankton Communities Across the Red Sea.Environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Unveiling the contribution of particle-associated non-cyanobacterial diazotrophs to NCommunications biology · 2025Article
- Quantitative microbial taxonomy across particle size, depth, and oxygen concentration.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Hydrodynamic activities and lifestyle preferences synergistically drive prokaryotic community assembly processes in the dual fronts system of the Yangtze River Estuary.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
- Particle partitioning and geography drive divergent microbial assembly and network connectivity in coastal South China Sea.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Article
46 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The sinking of organic particles formed in the photic layer is a main vector of carbon export into the deep ocean. Although sinking particles are heavily colonized by microbes, so far it has not been explored whether this process plays a role in transferring prokaryotic diversity from surface to deep oceanic layers. Using Illumina sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene, we explore here the vertical connectivity of the ocean microbiome by characterizing marine prokaryotic communities associated with five different size fractions and examining their compositional variability from surface down to 4,000 m across eight stations sampled in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans during the Malaspina 2010 Expedition. Our results show that the most abundant prokaryotes in the deep ocean are also present in surface waters. This vertical community connectivity seems to occur predominantly through the largest particles because communities in the largest size fractions showed the highest taxonomic similarity throughout the water column, whereas free-living communities were more isolated vertically. Our results further suggest that particle colonization processes occurring in surface waters determine to some extent the composition and biogeography of bathypelagic communities. Overall, we postulate that sinking particles function as vectors that inoculate viable particle-attached surface microbes into the deep-sea realm, determining to a considerable extent the structure, functioning, and biogeography of deep ocean communities.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.