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. 2024 Jan 19:12:e114809.
doi: 10.3897/BDJ.12.e114809. eCollection 2024.

Microbial diversity in four Mediterranean irciniid sponges

Katerina Skaraki  1   2 , Christina Pavloudi  3 , Thanos Dailianis  1 , Jacques Lagnel  4 , Adriani Pantazidou  2 , Antonios Magoulas  1 , Georgios Kotoulas  1
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Microbial diversity in four Mediterranean irciniid sponges

Katerina Skaraki et al. Biodivers Data J. .

Abstract

This paper describes a dataset of microbial communities from four different sponge species: Irciniaoros (Schmidt, 1864), Irciniavariabilis (Schmidt, 1862), Sarcotragusspinosulus Schmidt, 1862 and Sarcotragusfasciculatus (Pallas, 1766). The examined sponges all belong to Demospongiae (Class); Keratosa (Subclass); Dictyoceratida (Order); Irciniidae (Family). Samples were collected by scuba diving at depths between 6-14 m from two sampling sites of rocky formations at the northern coast of Crete (Cretan Sea, eastern Mediterranean) and were subjected to metabarcoding for the V5-V6 region of the 16S rRNA gene.

Keywords: 454 GS FLX Titanium; amplicon sequencing; eastern Mediterranean; marine metagenome; pyrosequencing; sponge metagenome.

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Figures

Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Bar chart showing the abundances of the main microbial taxa, at the phylum level, at each of the sponge samples.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
nMDS plot of the Bray-Curtis similarity matrix of the sponge samples, based on the microbial OTUs abundances.
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