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Metagenomic 16S rDNA amplicon data of microbial diversity and its predicted metabolic functions in the Southern Ocean (Antarctic).

ABSTRACT: Antarctica holds about 70% of all the freshwater on the planet in the form of ice. The seawater, it chills, affect the currents and temperature everywhere. Global warming risks the melting of the icecaps as it has already increased the ocean temperature by 1 °C to the West Antarctic peninsula since 1955. A better understanding of the microbial community in this extreme environment of utmost importance is of interest to the scientific community. Herein, we document our metagenomics analysis of the microbial diversity and abundance in the Southern Ocean [Lat 55? 33' 396 S; Lon 55? 31' 448 E] using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), QIIME 1.9.1, Silvangs and a naïve Bayesian classifier. Such metagenomics data hold the potential to aid predictive analysis, which is critical to our understanding of the dynamics of the microbial communities and their role in the Southern Ocean at present and in the future.

SUBMITTER: Sadaiappan B

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6920468 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Metagenomic 16S rDNA amplicon data of microbial diversity and its predicted metabolic functions in the Southern Ocean (Antarctic).

Sadaiappan Balamurugan B Kannan Sivakumar S Palaniappan Sivasankar S Manikkam Radhakrishnan R Ramasamy Balagurunathan B Anilkumar N Subramanian Mahendran M

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Antarctica holds about 70% of all the freshwater on the planet in the form of ice. The seawater, it chills, affect the currents and temperature everywhere. Global warming risks the melting of the icecaps as it has already increased the ocean temperature by 1 °C to the West Antarctic peninsula since 1955. A better understanding of the microbial community in this extreme environment of utmost importance is of interest to the scientific community. Herein, we document our metagenomics analysis of th ...[more]

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Metagenomic 16S rDNA amplicon data of microbial diversity and its predicted metabolic functions in the Southern Ocean (Antarctic).

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Metagenomic 16S rDNA amplicon data of microbial diversity and its predicted metabolic functions in the Southern Ocean (Antarctic).

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