Fungal amplicon sequencing of Spartina alterniflora endosymbionts and rhizosphere collected from Barataria Bay and Fourchon, September 2016

The table is the raw (non-rarified) fungal OTU (operational taxonomic unit) abundances table generated from leaves, roots and soil of 40 individual plants by sequencing the Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS)1 region. Fungal endophyte response variables will be abundance, diversity & spp. composition in roots, leaves and soil using culture-independent sequencing for taxonomy; and high throughput sequencing for community analyses. Environmental parameters including PAH, conductivity, etc measured from individual plant as well as site/location from where the plant samples were taken and individual plant GPS coordinates are included in the metadata table. Each OTU represent a unique sequence. Taxa assignment of OTUs using BLAST alignment against UNITE reference database v7.2 can be found on the second worksheet of the excel file. Raw Illumina ITS sequences were submitted in NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA) under the BioProjectID PRJNA475039.