Direct Molecular Analysis of Antarctica and Southern Ocean Microbial Communities

Metadata record for data from ASAC Project 867 See the link below for public details on this project.

Dataset

Sea-ice bacteria data are associated with ASAC_1012 and included there

Data for bacteria from ornithogenic soil samples collected from the Vestfold Hills Region is included (associated with ref 9899):

1. Isolate designations, availability, media used and growth conditions.
2. Phenotypic data - morphology, nutritional and biochemical traits
3. Chemical data - fatty acids, wax esters
4. Genotypic data - DNA base composition, DNA:DNA hybridisation analysis
5. Phylogenetic data - 16S rRNA gene sequences

The download file contains: Sample data obtained. Includes sea-ice sampling sites, location, information on ice cores including presence or absence of algal assemblage band communities and whether under-ice seawater was collected or not. Samples were melted and/or melted then filtered (0.2 micron size) for cultivation and DNA-related analyses carried out primarily in AAS project 1012.