marine host-microbe ecology and evolution

 

ESSAY

Natural experiments and long-term

monitoring are critical to understanding and

predict marine host-microbe ecology and

evolution

Matthieu LerayID 1‡*, Laetitia G. E. WilkinsID

2¤‡, Amy ApprillID

3, Holly M. BikID

4,

Friederike Clever 1,5

, Sean R. Connolly 1 , Marina E. De León

1,2, J. Emmett Duffy

6 ,

Leïla Ezzat7, Sarah Gignoux-WolfsohnID8, Edward Allen Herre1, Jonathan Z. KayeID9, David I. KlineID

1 , Jordan G. KuenemanID

1 , Melissa K. McCormick

8 , W. Owen McMillan

1 ,

Aaron O’DeaID 1,10*, Tiago J. PereiraID

4 , Jillian M. PetersenID

11 , Daniel F. PetticordID

1 ,

Mark E. Torchin 1 , Rebecca Vega ThurberID

12 , Elin VidevallID

13,14 , William T. WcisloID

1 ,

Benedict YuenID 11

, Jonathan A. EisenID 2,15,16

1 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Ancon, Republic of Panama, 2 UC Davis Genome

Center, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America, 3 Marine Chemistry and

Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United

States of America, 4 Department of Marine Sciences and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia,

Athens, Georgia, United States of America, 5 Department of Natural Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan

University, Manchester, United Kingdom, 6 Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network, Smithsonian

Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of America, 7 Department of Ecology,

Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, California, United

States of America, 8 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, Maryland, United States of

America, 9 Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Palo Alto, California, United States of America,

10 Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy,

11 Centre for Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria,

12 Department of Microbiology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America,

13 Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, Washington, DC, United