Better explicating the strengths and shortcomings of these models will help refine projections and improve transparency in the years ahead.
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Edited by Edward F. DeLong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and approved June 23, 2014 (received for review February 14, 2014)
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- Published in issue July 29, 2014.
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- Brandon M. Satinskya,
- Byron C. Crumpb,
- Christa B. Smithc,
- Shalabh Sharmac,
- Brian L. Zielinskid,
- Mary Dohertye,
- Jun Mengc,
- Shulei Sunf,
- Patricia M. Medeirosc,
- John H. Pauld,
- Victoria J. Colese,
- Patricia L. Yagerc, and
- Mary Ann Moranc,1
- Departments of aMicrobiology and
- cMarine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602;
- bCollege of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Science, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331;
- dCollege of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL 33701;
- eHorn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD 21613; and
- fCenter for Research in Biological Systems, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093
Edited by Edward F. DeLong, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and approved June 23, 2014 (received for review February 14, 2014)
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- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: mmoran{at}uga.edu.
Author contributions: B.M.S., B.C.C., J.H.P., P.L.Y., and M.A.M. designed research; B.M.S., B.C.C., C.B.S., B.L.Z., M.D., and J.M. performed research; P.M.M. and V.J.C. contributed new reagents/analytic tools; B.M.S., B.C.C., C.B.S., S. Sharma, M.D., S. Sun, P.M.M., P.L.Y., and M.A.M. analyzed data; and B.M.S. and M.A.M. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
Data deposition: The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the Sequence Read Archive, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra [accession nos. SRP039390 (metagenomes), SRP037995 (nonselective metatranscriptomes), and SRP039544 (poly(A)-selected metatranscriptomes)].
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1402782111/-/DCSupplemental.
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