Raw reads from a time series of microbial mats from Archaean Domes, Cuatro Cienegas PART I

Cuatro Cienegas Basin is an endangered oasis with several ponds, rivers and springs within northern Mexico that has been proposed as a relictual site of a marine origin. During late March 2016, an unusual spring rain dissolved the salty crust of a pond we had not noticed before, allowing a microbial mat with a very unusual flexible bubble-containing superficial layer to emerge. These time series metagenome collection will allow various studies on the ecology, diversity and temporal changes within the community of this newly discovered microbial mat.