Fish egg sequences for the Spawning Habitat and Early-Life Linkages to Fisheries (SHELF) project, northern Gulf of Mexico on 2017-07-17

Six commercial vessels and two FIO vessels collected fish eggs on the west Florida Shelf on 2017-07-17. At each station, two types of plankton net tows were conducted to collect eggs for proportional species-composition determination via DNA barcoding, and for estimating the number of eggs under the water surface. DNA barcoding was based on the region of the cytochrome c oxidase 1 gene (COI), which was amplified and sequenced using established methods. Individual eggs were identified using DNA barcoding. Sequences were submitted to NCBI GenBank (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/) under accession numbers MK976037-MK97664.