Assessing benthic meiofaunal community structure in the Alaskan Arctic: A high-throughput DNA sequencing approach, 2012-2014

• Main Authors: Sarah Hardy, Holly Bik
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Research Workspace
• Subjects: North Pacific Research Board; 18S rRNA; metagenomics; nematodes; taxonomy; marine sediment; meiofauna; high-throughput sequencing; sediment communities; environmental monitoring; resource development; Arctic; Pacific; Beaufort Sea; Chukchi
• Online Access: https://search.dataone.org/view/10.24431_rw1k473_20201111T012210Z

Despite their importance to sediment biogeochemical processes and marine food webs, meiofauna are notoriously difficult to characterize because components of the fauna are poorly preserved in sediment samples, lack obvious morphological features, and are extremely small in size (~45 m – 1 mm); thus,...