BioGeoSCAPES Meeting (2021)

Jesse McNichol, Postdoc, Fuhrman Lab

University of Southern California

Progress & prospects for using universal primers for biogeography and modelling

Universal (3-domain) primers

Goal: measure abundance of organisms across time / space
- 515Y / 926R primers target all cellular life

Microbe art: @claudia_traboni

Fraction of MG perfectly matching primer

tinyurl.com/mg-primer-oceans

Recovering quantitative gene copy numbers

tinyurl.com/eukmock

Analysis led by Yi-Chun Yeh (PhD candidate)

Correction factor for 18S

Profile from GEOTRACES (GA03)

Model-data intercomparison (GA03)