About the Authors

Eric Karsenti

karsenti@embl.de

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

Silvia G. Acinas

Affiliation Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Barcelona, Spain

Peer Bork

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

Chris Bowler

Affiliations CNRS, Paris, France, Institut de Biologie de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure (IBENS), Paris, France

Colomban De Vargas

Affiliations CNRS, Paris, France, Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Evolution du Plancton et Paleo Oceans (EPPO), Roscoff, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France

Jeroen Raes

Affiliations VIB, Brussels, Belgium, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

Matthew Sullivan

Affiliation University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, United States of America

Detlev Arendt

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

Francesca Benzoni

Affiliation University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Jean-Michel Claverie

Affiliations CNRS, Paris, France, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseilles, France

Mick Follows

Affiliation MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

Gaby Gorsky

Affiliations CNRS, Paris, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France, Laboratoire d'Oceanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

Pascal Hingamp

Affiliations CNRS, Paris, France, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseilles, France

Daniele Iudicone

Affiliation Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy

Olivier Jaillon

Affiliation Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Genoscope, Evry, France

Stefanie Kandels-Lewis

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

Uros Krzic

Affiliation European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Heidelberg, Germany

Fabrice Not

Affiliations CNRS, Paris, France, Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR), Evolution du Plancton et Paleo Oceans (EPPO), Roscoff, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France

Hiroyuki Ogata

Affiliations CNRS, Paris, France, Aix-Marseille Université, Marseilles, France

Stéphane Pesant

Affiliations Universitaet Bremen, Bremen, Germany, MARUM Center for Marine Environmental Sciences, Bremen, Germany

Emmanuel Georges Reynaud

Affiliation University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

Christian Sardet

Affiliations CNRS, Paris, France, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris, France, BioDev, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France

Michael E. Sieracki

Affiliation Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, West Boothbay Harbor, Maine, United States of America

Sabrina Speich

Affiliation Laboratoire de Physique des Océans (LPO), CNRS/Institut français de recherche pour l'exploitation de la mer (IFREMER)/Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)/Université de Bretagne Occidentale (UBO), Brest, France

Didier Velayoudon

Affiliation DVIPC, Paris, France

Jean Weissenbach

Affiliation Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Genoscope, Evry, France

Patrick Wincker

Affiliation Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Genoscope, Evry, France

the Tara Oceans Consortium

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.