Metagenomic analysis of fungal taxa inhabiting Mecca region, Saudi Arabia

Tarek A A Moussa; Hassan S Al-Zahrani; Omar A Almaghrabi; Nevien M Sabry; Michael P Fuller

doi:10.1016/j.gdata.2016.07.008

Metagenomic analysis of fungal taxa inhabiting Mecca region, Saudi Arabia

Genom Data. 2016 Jul 21:9:126-7. doi: 10.1016/j.gdata.2016.07.008. eCollection 2016 Sep.

Authors

Tarek A A Moussa¹, Hassan S Al-Zahrani², Omar A Almaghrabi³, Nevien M Sabry⁴, Michael P Fuller⁵

Affiliations

¹ Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Botany and Microbiology Department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza 12613, Egypt.
² Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
³ Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia; Biological Sciences Department, Faculty of Science, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
⁴ Cell Biology Department, Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Division, National Research Centre, Giza 12622, Egypt.
⁵ School of Biological Science, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Plymouth University, Plymouth, UK.

Abstract

The data presented contains the sequences of fungal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) and 18S rRNA gene from a metagenome of the Mecca region, Saudi Arabia. Sequences were amplified using fungal specific primers, which amplified the amplicon aligned between the 18S and 28S rRNA genes. A total of 460 fungal species belonging to 133 genera, 58 families, 33 orders, 13 classes and 4 phyla were identified in four contrasting locations. The raw sequencing data used to perform this analysis along with FASTQ file are located in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under accession numbers: SRR3150823, SRR3144873, SRR3150825 and SRR3150846.

Keywords: Biosamples; Fungi; ITS.; Metagenomic; Next generation sequencing.