Oil contaminated sands Raw sequence reads. Oil contaminated sands

Crude oil buried in intertidal sands may be exposed to alternating oxic and anoxic conditions but the effect of this tidally induced biogeochemical oscillation remains poorly understood, limiting the effectiveness of remediation and managing efforts after oil spills. Here, we used a combination of metatranscriptomics and genome resolved metagenomics to study microbial activities in oil-contaminated sediments during oxic anoxic cycles in laboratory chambers that closely emulated in situ conditions.