MALDI-TOF MS data: Species delimitation of Hexacorallia and Octocorallia around Iceland using nuclear and mitochondrial DNA and proteome fingerprinting ...

• Main Authors: Korfhage, Severin A., Rossel, Sven, Brix, Saskia, McFadden, Catherine, Ólafsdóttir, Steinunn Hilma, Martínez Abizu, Pedro
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Dryad 2022
• Subjects: Marine biodiversity; Norwegian Sea; Reykjanes; Iceland; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.hdr7sqvk0; https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.hdr7sqvk0

Cold-water corals build up reef structures or coral gardens and play an important role for many organisms in the deep sea. Climate change, deep-sea mining, and bottom trawling are severely compromising these ecosystems, making it all the more important to document the diversity, distribution, and im...