Bacterial community structure in the soft coral, Alcyonium antarcticum from Antarctica

• Other Authors: AIMS Data Centre (distributor), AIMS Data Centre (pointOfContact), Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) (hasAssociationWith), Data Manager, AIMS Data Centre (hasAssociationWith), Data Manager, AIMS Data Centre (pointOfContact), Webster, Nicole S, Dr (hasPrincipalInvestigator)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Ocean Data Network
• Subjects: oceans; Antarctic; McMurdo Sound; McMurdo Station; Scott Base; Armitage; Cape Armitage; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/bacterial-community-structure-antarcticum-antarctica/697348

Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned Credit Webster, Nicole S, Dr (Principal Investigator) The structure and composition of microbial communities inhabiting the soft coral Alcyonium antarcticum were investigated across 3 differentially contaminated sites within McMurdo Sound, Antarctica - McMurdo Station (MM), Scott Base (SB) and Cape Armitage (CA). \n \nSamples from all sites were subjected to culture-based analysis, denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE), 16S rRNA gene clone-library analysis, and (FISH). \n \nPhylogenetic groups included Gamma-, Alpha- and Beta- proteobacteria; Bacteroidetes; Firmicutes; Actinomycetales; Planctomycetes; and Chlorobi and bacteria from the functional group of sulfate-reducing bacteria.\n To investigate the structure and composition of microbial communities inhabiting the soft coral Alcyonium antarcticum. \n \nTo examine any variation within and between Alcyonium antarcticum bacterial communities from 3 differentially contaminated sites within McMurdo Sound, Antarctica .\n This was the first investigation of microbial communities associated with Antarctic soft corals. \n \nAccession numbers assigned to sequencing products: Culture1-Culture10 (DG312224, DG312225, DG312226, DG312227, DG312228, DG312229, DG312230, DG312231, DG312232, DG312233); OTU1-OTU15 (DG312234, DG312235, DG312236, DG312237, DG312238, DG312239, DG312240, DG312241, DG312242, DG312243, DG312244, DG312245, DG312246, DG312247, DG312248); DGGE Band1-Band11, (DG312249, DG312250, DG312251, DG312252, DG312253, DG312254, DG312255, DG312256, DG312257, DG312258) and Band14-Band16 (DG312259, DG312260, DG312261).\n