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Cold-water coral microbiomes (Paramuricea placomus) from Baltimore Canyon: raw and processed data

October 27, 2015

The files in this data release are the raw and processed DNA sequence files referenced in the submitted journal article by Kellogg et. al. titled "Bacterial Community Diversity of the Deep-Sea Octocoral Paramuricea placomus." They represent a 16S rRNA gene amplicon survey of the coral's microbiome completed using Roche 454 pyrosequencing with titanium reagents. Baltimore Canyon is in the Atlantic Ocean and the samples were collected in 2012-2013. The raw data files associated with this study have also been submitted to the NCBI Sequence Read Archive under Bioproject number PRJNA297333. For more information, please see the README file.

Publication Year 2015
Title Cold-water coral microbiomes (Paramuricea placomus) from Baltimore Canyon: raw and processed data
DOI 10.5066/F7HQ3WZZ
Authors Christina A Kellogg
Product Type Data Release
Record Source USGS Asset Identifier Service (AIS)
USGS Organization St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center
Rights This work is marked with CC0 1.0 Universal
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