Estuarine Coalescence Microcosms

We studied microbial community coalescence in estuaries, where freshwater and seawater meet. To investigate these dynamics, we combined natural freshwater and seawater bacterial communities at five mixing ratios and incubated them in microcosms with freshwater or seawater media. Forty mixed communities were tracked over six passages using Nanopore full-length 16S rRNA gene sequencing. This dataset contains the raw sequencing data generated in this experiment.