12S rRNA V5 (Fish-12S-Riaz) amplicon reference sequence database

12S rRNA Riaz amplicon reference sequence database in QIIME2 .qza format. Includes a newly developed rCRUX database leveraging NCBI nt sequences as of September. 2024 (Curd et al. 2023), sequences from MitoFish database (Zhu et al., 2023), 160 recently generated sequences across 70 Gulf fish taxa (Janosik et al., in review), and 15 new reference fish sequences from the Gulf of Mexico/Gulf of America. Database was filtered to only include bony fish, elasmobranchs, and mammals.