Dataset for: Ciliate microzooplankton from the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico

This dataset focuses on protists in the phylum Ciliophora collected at stations spanning the continental shelf in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico aboard the R/V Bellows research cruise, BE-1301. The dataset contains raw sequences from cloned rRNA genes, 95 per sample, 25 samples for oceanographic stations covering the northeast Gulf of Mexico continental shelf and DeSoto Canyon in February and July of 2012. The raw sequences contain primer segments and about 5% non-ciliate sequences, mostly radiolarians and acantharians. Edited sequences were binned at 95% similarity for ecological analysis and sequences representative of bins have been uploaded to Genbank as numbers MT973819 to MT973954. This dataset supports the publication: Snyder, R. A., Moss, J. A., Santoferrara, L., Head, M., & Jeffrey, W. H. (2021). Ciliate microzooplankton from the Northeastern Gulf of Mexico. ICES Journal of Marine Science. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsab002