Abstract:
Soil fungi communities from three Antarctic islands were characterised using DNA sequencing. Between October and November 2011, soil samples were collected from Bird Island, Signy Island and Leonie Island in the sub-Antarctic, low maritime and high maritime Antarctic respectively. Soil was collected under populations of Colobanthus quitensis (Kunth) Bartl. and Deschampsia antarctica Desv., the only two native vascular plant species that occur in Antarctica. Total DNA was extracted from the soils and fungal specific primers used to amplify the ribosomal ITS region for subsequent 454 pyrosequencing. Sequences are deposited in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (study accession SRP068654).
Funding was provided by the NERC grants NE/H014098/1, NE/H014772/1 and NE/H01408X/1.
Keywords:
DNA, Fungi, Sequencing, Soil
| Access Constraints: | Some restrictions may apply - see details on NCBI website. |
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| Use Constraints: | This data is governed by the NERC data policy http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/sites/data/policy/ and supplied under Open Government Licence v.3 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ |
| Creation Date: | 2017-03-08 |
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| Dataset Progress: | Complete |
| Dataset Language: | English |
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| Personnel: | |
| Name | UK PDC |
| Role(s) | Metadata Author |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Jennifer Dungait |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | North Wyke Research Station |
| Name | Dr Kevin Newsham |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | British Antarctic Survey |
| Name | Dr Clare Robinson |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Name | Dr Roland Bol |
| Role(s) | Investigator |
| Organisation | North Wyke Research Station |
| Name | Dr Filipa Cox |
| Role(s) | Technical Contact |
| Organisation | University of Manchester |
| Parent Dataset: | N/A |
| Reference: | Cox, F., Newsham, K. K., Bol, R., Dungait, J. A. J. and Robinson, C. H. (2016), Not poles apart: Antarctic soil fungal communities show similarities to those of the distant Arctic. Ecol Lett, 19: 528?536. doi:10.1111/ele.12587 | |
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| Lineage: | See the referenced publication for further information. | |
| Temporal Coverage: | |
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| Start Date | 2011-10-01 |
| End Date | 2011-11-30 |
| Spatial Coverage: | |
| Latitude | |
| Southernmost | -67.5984 |
| Northernmost | -54.0089 |
| Longitude | |
| Westernmost | -68.3561 |
| Easternmost | -38.0662 |
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| Min Altitude | N/A |
| Max Altitude | N/A |
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| Min Depth | N/A |
| Max Depth | N/A |
| Location: | |
| Location | Antarctica |
| Detailed Location | Signy Island, Leonie Island and Bird Island |
| Data Storage: | The data is stored in the NCBI Sequence Read Archive. |
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