TY - JOUR T1 - Microbial oceanography in a sea of opportunity JF - NatureNature Y1 - 2009 A1 - Bowler, Chris A1 - Karl, David M. A1 - Rita R. Colwell KW - Astronomy KW - astrophysics KW - Biochemistry KW - Bioinformatics KW - Biology KW - biotechnology KW - cancer KW - cell cycle KW - cell signalling KW - climate change KW - Computational Biology KW - development KW - developmental biology KW - DNA KW - drug discovery KW - earth science KW - ecology KW - environmental science KW - Evolution KW - evolutionary biology KW - functional genomics KW - Genetics KW - Genomics KW - geophysics KW - immunology KW - interdisciplinary science KW - life KW - marine biology KW - materials science KW - medical research KW - medicine KW - metabolomics KW - molecular biology KW - molecular interactions KW - nanotechnology KW - Nature KW - neurobiology KW - neuroscience KW - palaeobiology KW - pharmacology KW - Physics KW - proteomics KW - quantum physics KW - RNA KW - Science KW - science news KW - science policy KW - signal transduction KW - structural biology KW - systems biology KW - transcriptomics AB - Plankton use solar energy to drive the nutrient cycles that make the planet habitable for larger organisms. We can now explore the diversity and functions of plankton using genomics, revealing the gene repertoires associated with survival in the oceans. Such studies will help us to appreciate the sensitivity of ocean systems and of the ocean's response to climate change, improving the predictive power of climate models. VL - 459 SN - 0028-0836 ER -