Biodiversity and ecophysiology of Antarctic sea-ice bacteria

The data set includes information relevant for the study and description of sea-ice bacteria contains the following dataset subgroups and is organised by REFERENCE number.

1. Isolation data: strain designations (e.g. culture collection names are indicated for type cultures); media used for isolation and routine cultivation; temperature used for incubation; any special conditions (e.g. enrichment conditions) used for isolation; isolation site and type (e.g. sea-ice); availability of the indicated strain from the chief investigator (J. Bowman)

2. Phenotypic data: Includes morphological, physiological and biochemical tests performed. Details on how these were performed are indicated in the relevant reference.

3. Growth/temperature data: data for temperature related growth curves are given where available. Methods are indicated in the associated reference.

4. Fatty acid/chemotaxonomy data: fatty acid and other related data are given where available. Methods are indicated in the associated reference.

5. Genotypic data: data for DNA-guanosine/cytosine-content and genomic DNA:DNA hybridization are shown where available. Methods are indicated in the associated reference.

6. Phylogenetic data: data for sequences are cross-referenced to the GenBank database. In some cases, aligned sequence datasets are available in FASTA format and can be viewed in the programs BIOEDIT (www.mbio.ncsu.edu/BioEdit/bioedit.html) or CLUSTAL W (www.ebi.ac.uk/clustalw).

7. Other related published references which are useful or relevant to the dataset e.g. related sequences published subsequent to the ASAC study