Fig. 6: Schematic overview of the western North Atlantic microeukaryote community along the offshore-coastal gradient, integrating protein, transcript and pigment information. | Nature Communications

Fig. 6: Schematic overview of the western North Atlantic microeukaryote community along the offshore-coastal gradient, integrating protein, transcript and pigment information.

From: Microeukaryote metabolism across the western North Atlantic Ocean revealed through autonomous underwater profiling

Fig. 6

Transcript and proteins indicated nitrate stress in surface coastal waters (green), with transcriptional signatures of elevated phosphate transport and iron use in offshore waters. Stramenopiles were detected throughout the transect with diatom and dictyophyte proteins in the surface (yellow), and diatom and pelagophyte proteins at depth (blue/gray). Diatom pigments were highest in concentration towards the coast. Haptophytes proteins were relatively more abundant in surface waters. Dinoflagellate and ciliate proteins and transcripts were detected throughout the water column. Foraminifera, discoba, picozoa and radiolarian proteins were relatively more abundant in the mesopelagic (blue). Radiolarian proteins reflected a vertical community shift with Polycystinea in the surface and Symphycanthida at depth. Fungi appeared in both transcripts and proteins in the bathypelagic (gray), though only one site above the continental shelf was surveyed.

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