Coastal Ocean Metagenomes and Curated Metagenome-Assembled Genomes from Marsh Landing, Sapelo Island (Georgia, USA)

Julian Damashek; Christian F Edwardson; Bradley B Tolar; Scott M Gifford; Mary Ann Moran; James T Hollibaugh

doi:10.1128/MRA.00934-19

Coastal Ocean Metagenomes and Curated Metagenome-Assembled Genomes from Marsh Landing, Sapelo Island (Georgia, USA)

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Oct 3;8(40):e00934-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00934-19.

Authors

Julian Damashek¹, Christian F Edwardson², Bradley B Tolar², Scott M Gifford³, Mary Ann Moran², James T Hollibaugh²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA judamash@utica.edu.
² Department of Marine Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA.
³ Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.

Abstract

Microbes play a dominant role in the biogeochemistry of coastal waters, which receive organic matter from diverse sources. We present metagenomes and 45 metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) from Sapelo Island, Georgia, to further understand coastal microbial populations. Notably, four MAGs are archaea, with two Thaumarchaeota and two marine group II Euryarchaeota.