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ArticleISME communications2025

Quantitative metagenomics for marine prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes.

Qicheng Bei, Nathan L R Williams, Laura E Furtado, Daria Di Blasi, Jelani Williams, Vanda Brotas, Glen Tarran, Andrew P Rees, Chris Bowler, Jed A Fuhrman

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Article in ISME communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. The dynamic mesoscale sink and source niches for eukaryotic phytoplankton in a subtropical gyre.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Qicheng BeiDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5712-5440
Nathan L R WilliamsDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2496-9441
Laura E FurtadoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.
Daria Di BlasiDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.
Jelani WilliamsDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.
Vanda BrotasFaculdade de Ciências, Marine and Environmental Science Centre (MARE)/Aquatic Research Network (ARNET), Universidade de Lisboa, 1749-016, Lisbon, Portugal.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8612-4167
Glen TarranPlymouth Marine Laboratory, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3695-5151
Andrew P ReesPlymouth Marine Laboratory, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL1 3DH, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3070-3447
Chris BowlerInstitut de Biologie de l'École Normale Supérieure (IBENS), École Normale Supérieure, CNRS, INSERM, PSL Université, 75005 Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3835-6187
Jed A FuhrmanDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2361-1985

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

High-throughput sequencing has provided unprecedented insights into microbial biodiversity in marine and other ecosystems. However, most sequencing-based studies report only relative (compositional) rather than absolute abundance, limiting their application in ecological modeling and biogeochemical analyses. Here, we present a metagenomic protocol incorporating genomic internal standards to quantify the absolute abundances of prokaryotes and eukaryotic phytoplankton, which together form the base of the marine food web, in unfractionated seawater. We applied this method to surface waters collected across 50°N to 40°S during the 29

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absolute quantificationinternal standardsmetagenomicsphytoplankton

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