Microbial communities of deep-sea hydrothermal vents Raw sequence reads
This project examines trophic interactions among microbial eukaryotes, viruses, bacteria, and archaea at deep-sea hydrothermal vents using metagenomics and metatranscriptomics and characterizes these ecologically-significant interactions, such as mutualism, predator-prey, or virus-host. Samples were collected in the Gorda Ridge hydrothermal vent field (2019), Mid-Cayman Rise hydrothermal vent field (2020), and Axial Seamount (2022).