microbial Eukaryotes in lakes along an Argentinian-Antarctic geographical gradient

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Description

Amplicon sequencing dataset (Illumina HiSeq) of Eukaryotes (18S) in lakes along a latitudinal gradient from Southern Argentina to maritime Antarctica

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Schiaffino R, Lara E, Fernandez L, Balagué V, Singer D, Seppey C, Massana R, Izaguirre I (2019): microbial Eukaryotes in lakes along an Argentinian-Antarctic geographical gradient. v1.0. SCAR - Microbial Antarctic Resource System. Dataset/Metadata. https://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=microbial_eukaryotes_in_antarctic_and_argentinian_lakes&v=1.0

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Romina Schiaffino
  • Originator ●
  • Point Of Contact
Centro de Investigaciones y transferencia del Noroeste de la Provincia de Buenos Aires
Junin
AR
Enrique Lara
  • Originator
University of Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Leonardo Fernandez
  • Originator
University of Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Vanessa Balagué
  • Originator
Institut de Ciències del Mar
Barcelona
ES
David Singer
  • Originator
University of Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Christophe Seppey
  • Originator
University of Neuchâtel
Neuchâtel
CH
Ramon Massana
  • Originator
Institut de Ciències del Mar
Barcelona
ES
Irina Izaguirre
  • Originator
Universidad de Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
AR
Maxime Sweetlove
  • Metadata Provider
  • Research assistent
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
  • Rue Vautier 29
1000 Brussels
BE

Geographic Coverage

Latitudinal gradient from Patagonia and Terra del Fuego (Argentina) to the Antarctic Peninsula

Bounding Coordinates South West [-63.4, -71.51], North East [-45.55, -57]

Taxonomic Coverage

microbial eukaryotes were profiled by targeting the 18S ssu rRNA gene (v9 region)

Domain Eukaryota (Eukaryotes)

Temporal Coverage

Start Date / End Date 2004-01-15 / 2008-10-20

Project Data

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Title microbial Eukaryotes in lakes along an Argentinian-Antarctic geographical gradient
Funding This work was supported by a grant from the Argentinean Funds for Technical and Scientific Investigation (FONCYT, PICT 32732 and PICT 2013‐0794), the Spanish Project MIXANTAR (REN 2002‐11396‐E/ANT), the Swiss NSF project 310003A_143960 and the Program ‘Luis Santaló’ of the National Research Council of Spain and the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research of Argentina (CSIC‐CONICET, PROBA 2007AR0018).

The personnel involved in the project:

Romina Schiaffino

Sampling Methods

Integrated samples were collected within the euphotic zone from the surface down to 5 m in deep lakes and from about 30 cm below the surface in shallow lakes.

Study Extent Samples were collected once in 14 freshwater bodies (ranging from oligotrophic to eutrophic) from Chubut Province, Argentinean Patagonia, to Hope Bay, Antarctic Peninsula (45º22′ to 63º24′ S of latitude) (Fig. 1). In Antarctic lakes, samples were taken during the austral summer 2004, whereas in Patagonian lakes, samples were collected in late spring 2007 and 2008.

Method step description:

  1. Water samples were pre‐filtered in situ through a 50 µm net to remove zooplankton, then filtered with a vacuum pump first through a 20 µm pore‐size polycarbonate filter and then through a 3 µm and 0.2 µm pore‐size polycarbonate filters (diameter 47 mm; Millipore, Cork, Ireland). The filters were placed in cryovials with 1.8 ml of lysis buffer (40 mM EDTA, 50 mM Tris‐HCl, 0.75 M sucrose) and stored at −80°C until DNA extraction. The 0.2–3 µm size fraction was used for this study. The procedures followed for DNA extraction (phenol/chloroform extraction) and touchdown polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplifications were previously described in detail (Unrein et al., 2005).
  2. We amplified extracted DNA using primers specific to the V9 variable region of the 18S rRNA gene using the protocol as in Amaral‐Zettler et al. (2009), and adapted after Lara et al. (2015). Sequencing was performed by the company Fasteris (Geneva, Switzerland) using Illumina HiSeq 2500 technology; paired end reads were around 200 bp in length.

Bibliographic Citations

  1. Schiaffino, M. R., Lara, E., Fernández, L. D., Balagué, V., Singer, D., Seppey, C. C., ... & Izaguirre, I. (2016). Microbial eukaryote communities exhibit robust biogeographical patterns along a gradient of Patagonian and Antarctic lakes. Environmental microbiology, 18(12), 5249-5264. https://doi.org/10.1111/1462-2920.13566