Resilience of Antarctic marine benthic invertebrates and the ecological consequences of environmental change - Amphipod Data 2002/10 ...

• Main Author: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre 2023
• Subjects: Antarc*; Antarctic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.15468/aw9vdc; https://www.gbif.org/dataset/53334055-d64e-48cd-8c83-2295d3891782

Overview The aim of the project was to assess the genetic connectivity of benthic amphipods (crustaceans) on a circumantarctic scale. Two sibling amphipod species were chosen as the subjects for this study: Eusirus perdentatus and Eusirus giganteus. Samples of both species were collected (or donated by other institutions) from five broad regions of the Antarctic coast (see 'Sample location information' worksheet). The dataset we generated represents DNA sequences we obtained from these amphipods. Each amphipod was sequenced for three gene regions - these were cytochrome oxidase subunit I (COI), internal transcribed spacer 2 (ITS2) and cytochrome b (CytB). Each DNA sequence generated has been deposited on the publicly-accessible GenBank website (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) and therefore has its own accession number (which can be typed into the GenBank search bar to access the actual DNA sequence in .fasta format). The attached spreadsheet provides details on the location, depth and date of each amphipod ...