bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.06.06.445733; this version posted June 6, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Title 2 Airborne bacteria over the oceans shed light on global biogeodiversity patterns 3 4 Short title 5 Aerobiome Biogeography over Oceans 6 7 Authors 8 Naama Lang-Yona1,6, J. Michel Flores2, Rotem Haviv1, Adriana Alberti3,4, Julie 9 Poulain3,4, Caroline Belser3,4, Miri Trainic2, Daniella Gat2, Hans-Joachim Ruscheweyh5, 10 Patrick Wincker3,4, Shinichi Sunagawa5, Yinon Rudich2, Ilan Koren2,*, Assaf Vardi1,* 11 12 Affiliations 13 1Department of Plant and Environmental Science, Weizmann Institute of Science, 14 7610001 Rehovot, Israel. 15 2Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001 16 Rehovot, Israel. 17 3Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Univ Evry, 18 Université Paris-Saclay, 91057 Evry, France. 19 4Research Federation for the study of Global Ocean Systems Ecology and Evolution, 20 FR2022/Tara Oceans GOSEE, 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75016 Paris, France. 21 5Department of Biology and Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, ETH Zürich, Vladimir- 22 Prelog-Weg 4, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland. 23 6Kinneret Limnological Laboratory, Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research, 24 14950 Migdal, Israel. 25 *Corresponding author: Ilan Koren (
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[email protected]) 27 28 Abstract 29 Microbes play essential roles in biogeochemical processes in the oceans and atmosphere. 30 Studying the interplay between these two ecosystems can provide important insights into 31 microbial biogeography and diversity.