marine sediment metagenome Raw sequence reads

Sediments are a major final sink and reservoirs for aromatic compounds in aquatic environment that derived from oil spills, industrial waste, sewage effluent, surface runoff etc. Anaerobic biodegradation of aromatic compounds coupled to sulfate reduction is important to marine sediments because of the abundant sulfate in seawater. The objective of this study was to investigate the potential of facilitating aromatic compounds degradation under sulfate-reducing conditions in sediments by the supplementation of iron oxides.