DNA fingerprints (TRFLP) of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria in New England salt marshes 2001-04-01 to 2017-06-28

This data set contains terminal restriction fragment polymorphism (TRFLP) profiles of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria from four New England salt marshes: Barn Island Wildlife Management Area and Cottrell Marsh in southeastern Connecticut, the Great Sippewissett Marsh on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and the Plum Island Estuary in northeastern Massachusetts. TRFLP profiles based on the betaproteobacterial amoA gene were generated from sediment samples collected from the top 2 or 4 cm. Gene abundance data, potential nitrification rates and various sediment chemistries for samples collected at the same sites can be found in GRIIDC under Unique Dataset Identifier (UDI) R6.x808.000:0014 (DOI: 10.7266/n7-mjpn-eq50).