Marmara deep sea metagenomics
Metagenome from microbial community of plankton and sediment
In this work, we have characterized the microbial diversity in mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones of the water column (500, 1000 m and 1250 m depth) and bottom sediment from the Marmara Sea by amplifying, cloning and sequencing archaeal, bacterial and eukaryotic small-subunit rRNA (SSU rRNA) genes and by direct pyrosequencing of environmental DNA from 1000 m-deep plankton and sediment (approximately 35 Mbp, respectively).    The plankton sample was recovered from the water column in the Central Basin of the Marmara Sea (40° 50.3'N 28°1.4' E) at 1000m depth.  The sediment sample was recovered from the Central Basin of the Marmara Sea at 1,300 m depth (40° 46.8'N and 29°6.1' E).  A comparative metagenomics analysis of these data with that of previous studies of deep-sea and surface plankton, subsurface deep-sea sediment, whale carcasses and soil reveals interesting trends.  <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?holding=&db=Nucleotide&cmd=search&term=HM103388:HM103902[accn]">HM103388-HM103902 </a> are ribosomal RNA sequences associated with this study.