Catalog of GenBank sequence read archive (SRA) entries of metagenomic DNA sequence analyses of bacterial and archaeal water column communities along the Eastern Beaufort Sea coast, North Slope, Alaska, 2012

• Main Authors: Beaufort Lagoon Ecosystems LTER, Crump, Byron C, Kellogg, Colleen TE, Baker, Kristina, McClelland, James W, Dunton, Kenneth H
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Environmental Data Initiative 2021
• Subjects: Arctic; Colleen; Beaufort Sea; north slope; Alaska
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.6073/pasta/6bfe32f7eb95a886ee5af8f099634b3c; https://portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrowse?packageid=knb-lter-ble.19.1

In contrast to temperate systems, Arctic lagoons that span the Alaska Beaufort Sea coast face extreme seasonality. Nine months of ice cover up to ∼1.7 m thick is followed by a spring thaw that introduces an enormous pulse of freshwater, nutrients, and organic matter into these lagoons over a relatively brief 2–3 week period. Prokaryotic communities link these subsidies to lagoon food webs through nutrient uptake, heterotrophic production, and other biogeochemical processes, but little is known about how the genomic capabilities of these communities respond to seasonal variability. This study characterizes the metabolic capabilities of microbial communities across three seasons in two lagoons and one open coastal site along the eastern Alaska Beaufort Sea coast. We used metagenomic DNA sequence data of bacterial and archaeal water column communities to identify genes of relevant biogeochemical pathways. This data package catalogs sequence read archive (SRA) entries available through GenBank BioProject PRJNA642637 at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA642637. This data package is associated with the following publication: Baker, Kristina D., Colleen T. E. Kellogg, James W. McClelland, Kenneth H. Dunton, and Byron C. Crump. “The Genomic Capabilities of Microbial Communities Track Seasonal Variation in Environmental Conditions of Arctic Lagoons.” Frontiers in Microbiology 12 (2021). https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2021.601901. Environmental variables (physiochemical data from YSI and HOBO data loggers, as well as organic matter analysis and stable isotope data from discrete water samples) associated with this genomic dataset are available from the Arctic Data Center: Kenneth Dunton, Byron Crump, and James McClelland. Physical, chemical, and biological data from lagoons and open coastal waters in the nearshore environment of the eastern Alaska Beaufort Sea, 2011-2013. Arctic Data Center. doi:10.18739/A2DG13. To join the two datasets together, please use the provided site codes (column "site_name" here) and collection dates (column "collection_date" here) in each dataset. Instead of citing this package, which is a catalog, please cite the original GenBank data, journal article, or related Arctic Data Center dataset as appropriate. Citation guidance for the journal article and related Arctic Data Center dataset is available on the respective publishers' websites.