Marine Microbial Eukaryotes

of a few abundant and many rare species. This pattern is particularly prominent in microbial communities, in which fundamentally different characteristics and ecological roles. For example, rare marine microbes are hypothesized to include ecologically redundant taxa that could increase in Please cite this article in press as: Logares et al., Patterns of Rare and Abundant Marine Microbial Eukaryotes, Current Biology (2014)