marine sediment metagenome Metagenome

doi:10.15468/a8mknt

marine sediment metagenome Metagenome

Citation

MGnify (2019). marine sediment metagenome Metagenome. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/a8mknt accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-12.

Description

In this study, we investigated marine sediment from around the Okinawan 'Kaichu-Doro' Causeway, which was constructed 44 years ago to connect three islands (Henza-jima, Miyagi-jima, Hamahiga-jima) to Okinawa. The construction of this causeway has been shown to influence the surrounding marine ecosystem via fragmentation and the loss of water circulation. In this research, we collected 10 sediment cores (5 cores from each side) 60-80 cm length from 1 m water depth and divided into layers (each layer 15 cm) to examine differences in environmental DNA from areas around the causeway. We examined the vertical diversity of microbial communities and metabolite to elucidate and estimate the correlation between metabolites and microbial communities among marine sediment layers.

Sampling Description

Sampling

In this study, we investigated marine sediment from around the Okinawan 'Kaichu-Doro' Causeway, which was constructed 44 years ago to connect three islands (Henza-jima, Miyagi-jima, Hamahiga-jima) to Okinawa. The construction of this causeway has been shown to influence the surrounding marine ecosystem via fragmentation and the loss of water circulation. In this research, we collected 10 sediment cores (5 cores from each side) 60-80 cm length from 1 m water depth and divided into layers (each layer 15 cm) to examine differences in environmental DNA from areas around the causeway. We examined the vertical diversity of microbial communities and metabolite to elucidate and estimate the correlation between metabolites and microbial communities among marine sediment layers.

Method steps

Pipeline used: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/pipelines/4.1

Taxonomic Coverages

Geographic Coverages

Bibliographic Citations

Soliman T, Reimer JD, Yang SY, Villar-Briones A, Roy MC, Jenke-Kodama H. 2017. Diversity of Microbial Communities and Quantitative Chemodiversity in Layers of Marine Sediment Cores from a Causeway (Kaichu-Doro) in Okinawa Island, Japan. Front Microbiol vol. 8 - DOI:10.3389/fmicb.2017.02451

Contacts

originator
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

metadata author
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University

administrative point of contact
Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University