title: Microbial ecology: finding structure in the rare biosphere.
abstract: Protists (unicellular eukaryotes) play important roles in marine ecosystems but are tremendously diverse and many remain uncharacterized. Deep-sequencing of a universal marker gene has helped resolve community composition patterns among rare and abundant protistan sequence groups in coastal European waters.
authors.affiliation: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA.
authors.forename: Charles
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bachy
authors.affiliation: Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), Moss Landing, CA 95039, USA; Integrated Microbial Biodiversity Program, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Toronto, M5G 1Z8, Canada. Electronic address: azworden@mbari.org.
authors.forename: Alexandra Z
authors.initials: AZ
authors.lastname: Worden
mesh_terms: D044822:Biodiversity; D056890:Eukaryota / Q000235:genetics* / Q000502:physiology*; D008386:Marine Biology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D064307:Microbiota / Q000235:genetics*; D010802:Phylogeny