Green algae (Viridiplantae) in sediments from three lakes on Vega Island, Antarctica, assessed using metabarcoding

• Published in: Molecular Biology Reports
• Main Authors: Fonseca, Bárbara Medeiros, Câmara, Paulo Eduardo Aguiar Saraiva, Ogaki, Mayara Baptistucci, Pinto, Otávio Henrique Bezerra, Lirio, Juan Manuel, Coria, Silvia H., Vieira, Rosemary, Carvalho-Silva, Micheline, Amorim, Eduardo Toledo, Convey, Peter, Rosa, Luiz Henrique
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Springer 2022
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Weddell Sea; Weddell; Vega Island; Esmeralda; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/530518/; https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11033-021-06857-1

Vega Island is located off the eastern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula (Maritime Antarctica), in the Weddell Sea. In this study, we used metabarcoding to investigate green algal DNA sequence diversity present in sediments from three lakes on Vega Island (Esmeralda, Copépodo, and Pan Negro Lakes).