Catalog of GenBank sequence read archive (SRA) entries of 16S and 18S rRNA genes from bacterial and protistan planktonic communities along the Eastern Beaufort Sea coast, North Slope, Alaska, 2011-2013

Microbial communities in the coastal Arctic Ocean experience extreme variability in organic matter and inorganic nutrients driven by seasonal shifts in sea ice extent and freshwater inputs. Lagoons border more than half of the Beaufort Sea coast and provide important habitats for migratory fish and seabirds; yet, little is known about the planktonic food webs supporting these higher trophic levels. To investigate seasonal changes in bacterial and protistan planktonic communities, amplicon sequences of 16S and 18S rRNA genes were generated from samples collected during periods of ice-cover (April), ice break-up (June), and open water (August) from shallow lagoons along the eastern Alaska Beaufort Sea coast from 2011 through 2013. This data package catalogs sequence read archive (SRA) entries available through GenBank BioProject PRJNA530074 at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bioproject/PRJNA530074. This data package is associated with the following publication: Kellogg CTE, McClelland JW, Dunton KH and Crump BC (2019) Strong Seasonality in Arctic Estuarine Microbial Food Webs. Front. Microbiol. 10:2628. doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.02628 Environmental variables (physiochemical data from YSI and HOBO data loggers, as well as organic matter analysis and stable isotope data from discrete water samples) associated with this genomic dataset are available from the Arctic Data Center: Kenneth Dunton, Byron Crump, and James McClelland. Physical, chemical, and biological data from lagoons and open coastal waters in the nearshore environment of the eastern Alaska Beaufort Sea, 2011-2013. Arctic Data Center. doi:10.18739/A2DG13. To join the two datasets together, please use the provided site codes (column "site_name" here) and collection dates (column "collection_date" here) in each dataset. Note that the site codes in this package are without hyphens (e.g. JAA) while site codes in the above environmental data package have hyphens (e.g. JA-A). Instead of citing this package which is just a catalog, please cite the original GenBank data, journal article, or related Arctic Data Center dataset as appropriate. Citation guidance for the journal article and related Arctic Data Center dataset is available on the respective publishers' websites.