PRJNA554989
Microbial communities of the Mariana Trench and Mussau Trench
This study presents the first exploration on abundance, species composition and spatial variations of the total and alive microbial community in 1 cm sectioned sediment cores from the deepest points of the Mariana (depth = 10853 m) and Mussau trenches (depth = 7011 m), using high-throughput sequencing on amplicons of both 16S rRNA gene and 16S rRNA.