A total of 219 metagenome-assembled genomes of microorganisms from Icelandic marine waters

PeerJ

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Clara Jégousse¹  Pauline Vannier²  René Groben²  Frank Oliver Glöckner³  Viggó Marteinsson¹ 

[1] School of Health Sciences, University of Iceland;Microbiology Group;Data at the Computing Center, Alfred Wegener Institute;MARUM - Center for Marine Environmental Sciences,University of Bremen

关键词: Metagenomics;    Metagenome-assembled genomes;    Iceland;    Bacteria;    Archaea;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.11112

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

Marine microorganisms contribute to the health of the global ocean by supporting the marine food web and regulating biogeochemical cycles. Assessing marine microbial diversity is a crucial step towards understanding the global ocean. The waters surrounding Iceland are a complex environment where relatively warm salty waters from the Atlantic cool down and sink down to the deep. Microbial studies in this area have focused on photosynthetic micro- and nanoplankton mainly using microscopy and chlorophyll measurements. However, the diversity and function of the bacterial and archaeal picoplankton remains unknown. Here, we used a co-assembly approach supported by a marine mock community to reconstruct metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from 31 metagenomes from the sea surface and seafloor of four oceanographic sampling stations sampled between 2015 and 2018. The resulting 219 MAGs include 191 bacterial, 26 archaeal and two eukaryotic MAGs to bridge the gap in our current knowledge of the global marine microbiome.

【 授权许可】

CC BY