Bacteria (16S) in Antarctic terrestrial soils of the Sor Rondane Mountains

Bjorn Tytgat1, Wim Vyverman1, Anne Willems2, Elie Verleyen1, Maxime Sweetlove3, Anne Willems4, Karolien Peeters4, Zorigto Namsaraev5

1 Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281, 9000, Ghent, Belgium; 2 Ghent University, 9000, Ghent, Belgium; 3 Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Rue Vautier 29, 1000, Brussels, Belgium; 4 Ghent University, , Belgium; 5 Kurchatov Institute, 

Corresponding author(s): Bjorn Tytgat (bjorn.tytgat@ugent.be)Wim Vyverman (wim.vyverman@ugent.be)Anne Willems (anne.willems@ugent.be)Elie Verleyen (Elie.verleyen@ugent.be), Maxime Sweetlove (msweetlove@naturalsciences.be)

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Resource Citation

Tytgat B, Vyverman W, Willems A, Verleyen E (2018): Bacteria (16S) in Antarctic terrestrial soils of the Sor Rondane Mountains. v1.3. SCAR - Microbial Antarctic Resource System. Dataset/Metadata. http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=bacteria_antarctic_terrestrial_soils&v=1.3

Abstract

Illumina sequencing data of bacterial communities in 52 soil samples from the western Sør Rondane Mountains (Dronning Maud Land, East Antarctica).The samples were taken along broad environmental gradients, including different types of bedrock, in an area covering nearly 1000 km2. 

Keywords: Metadata

Project details

Project title: BELDIVA-AMBIO
Personnel: Bjorn Tytgat
Funding: This research was funded by the Special Research Fund BOF of (grant ) and by the Belgian Science Policy Office (BelSPO) projects BELDIVA (EA/00/05), AMBIO (SD/BA/01A) and CCAMBIO (SD/BA/03A). A. Wilmotte is Research Associate of the FRS-FNRS. This study is a contribution to the State of the Antarctic Ecosystem (AntEco) research program of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).
Study area descriptions/descriptor: The Sop Ronda Mountains (SRM) (22° E-28° E, 71°30′ S-72°40′ S) are a 220 km long, east-west oriented mountain range, situated about 200 km inland, with peaks reaching 3300 m a.s.l. The bedrock is mainly metamorphic (e.g. gneiss) with some plutonic (granite) outcrops. 

Data published through GBIF: http://ipt.biodiversity.aq/resource?r=bacteria_antarctic_terrestrial_soils

Taxonomic coverage

General taxonomic coverage description: 16S ssh rRNA gene of Bacteria, using the primers pA (AGAGTTTGATCCTGGCTCAG, positions 8–27) and BKL1 (GTATTACCGCGGCTGCTGGCA, positions 536–516)
Taxonomic ranks
Domain: Bacteria
Common names: bacteria

Spatial coverage

General spatial coverage: Sor Ronda Mountains, East Antarctica
Coordinates: 72°5'60''S and 71°47'60''S Latitude; 22°41'60''E and 24°36'0''E Longitude 

Temporal coverage: 2009 - 2010

Metadata language: English
Date of metadata creation: 2018-11-14
Hierarchy level: Dataset

References
Tytgat, B., Verleyen, E., Sweetlove, M., D'hondt, S., Clercx, P., Van Ranst, E., ... & Vyverman, W. (2016). Bacterial community composition in relation to bedrock type and macrobiota in soils from the Sør Rondane Mountains, East Antarctica. FEMS microbiology ecology, 92(9).