Unveiling trophic functions of uncultured protist taxa by incubation experiments in the brackish Baltic Sea

Abstract

Our knowledge of the phylogeny and diversity of aquatic protists is rapidly increasing due to molecular environmental surveys, but these surveys mostly target only single gene markers, typically the 18S rRNA gene. Here we use a large-scale metatranscriptomic approach to characterize eukaryotic diversity in marine plankton samples from three oceanic sites.

Javier del Campo

Group Leader

My research aims at understanding the global diversity and distribution of eukaryotic and prokaryotic microbes employing curated phylogenetic frameworks focusing on novel environmental taxa.