Cold-Water Coral Microbiomes (Lophelia pertusa) from Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean: Raw Data

The files in this data release are the raw DNA sequence files referenced in the submitted journal article by Christina A. Kellogg, Dawn B. Goldsmith and Michael A. Gray entitled "Biogeographic comparison of Lophelia-associated bacterial communities in the western Atlantic reveals conserved core microbiome." They represent a 16S rRNA gene amplicon survey of the coral's microbiomes completed using Roche 454 pyrosequencing with titanium reagents. Samples from the Gulf of Mexico were collected in 2009 and 2010. Samples from the Atlantic Ocean were collected in 2009. The raw data files associated with this study have also been submitted to the NCBI Sequence Read Archive under Bioproject number PRJNA305617. For more information, please see the README file.

Kellogg, C.A., Goldsmith, D.B., and Gray, M.A., 2017, Biogeographic comparison of Lophelia-associated bacterial communities in the western Atlantic reveals conserved core microbiome: Frontiers in Microbiology, 8:796, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2017.00796.