Analysis Of The Global Ocean Microbiome By Mary Ann Moran

Mary Ann Moran’s article “The Global Ocean Microbiome” describes the identities of molecular structures exchanged in the microbial functions and vulnerability (1). By studying the microbes in the ocean at all of its different layers, researchers have found many similarities of microbiome evolution in the ocean. There are differences, however, in all the different microbiome, especially in size and shape. They are all linked together, though, through evolution.
In Moran’s article she mentions how there are connections between the microbiome and nature. The increase in temperature of the water or ocean causes a fluctuation in the microbiome. The composition and productivity of the microbiome are directly affected by these changes of temperature. She also described when the pH of the ocean would change in a certain way, either an increase or decrease in pH, the microbial photosynthesis would be affected. This changed the energetic costs of obtaining inorganic molecules from photosynthesis, which then resulted in lack of ability to make …show more content…
She says that it is easier to find the functions of each microbe, but linking them together in their function and stability and the effects nature changes has on their life, is very difficult. As Moran states in her conclusion of her article, “Identifying the molecules…that pass between microbes is an emerging area of microbiome research that will focus attention on the “currencies” of microbial activity. Ultimately, the flux of materials, both among microbes and between microbes and their surroundings, constitutes microbiome function and determines its response to external changes” (4). So in turn studying microorganisms is easy and finding their functions is also easy, but determining the results and links of their functions to the ecosystem and environment of Earth is difficult. Researchers are still working to figure out the