SINGAPORE – When we think of the ocean, it is often images of massive sperm whales and large shoals of fish swimming in the glittering blue that spring to mind. Read more at straitstimes.com.
SINGAPORE – When we think of the ocean, it is often images of massive sperm whales and large shoals of fish swimming in the glittering blue that spring to mind.
The scientists also created a Web application that identifies where different plankton communities exist on an interactive map.www.shiny.metapr2.org “All animals – from humans to insects – only represent a single branch in the eukaryotic tree of life… contain an astonishing high number of species and the majority of this domain of life are represented by protists,” said Prof Lopes dos Santos, who is the principal investigator of NTU’s Genomic and Ecology of Eukaryotes laboratory.In the Web application that the team created, plankton communities are identified by colourful circles that speckle the world map like stickers.
Dr Vaulot, also co-lead of the project, added: “Researchers can now use this resource to look at the global distribution and study the ecology of specific plankton with confidence. Protists play key ecological roles and are involved in primary productivity, nutrient cycling and carbon sequestration.”
With the help of undergraduate and graduate students from the Geek lab, the team has incorporated in metaPR2 metabarcoding data from 59 available studies, and aims to slowly add more, in particular data from understudied environments.
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