The Persian Gulf is a special habitat of marine sponges whose bacterial communities are under-investigated. Recently, next-generation sequencing technology has comprehensively improved the knowledge o
The Tara Oceans Expedition (2009-2013) sampled the world oceans on board a 36 m long schooner, collecting environmental data and organisms from viruses to planktonic metazoans...
Dust was collected from NWERN sites spanning the western United States. DNA extractions and sequencing were performed on samples. Metadata can be found in the \"mapper\" file, with community details i