loggerhead sea turtle carapace and skin diatom rbcL marker gene NGS sequencing. Diatom communities associated with loggerhead sea turtles

In this project, we investigated the diatom communities on the carapace and skin of loggerhead sea turtles. Diatom community composition was studied by next-generation sequencing of the rbcL gene barcode. These data are related to the study Filek et al. 2022 "More than just hitchhikers: a survey of bacterial communities associated with diatoms originating from sea turtles" FEMS Microbiology Ecology, fiac104, doi:10.1093/femsec/fiac104; and preprint Filek et al. 2022 "More than just hitchhikers: a survey of bacterial communities associated with diatoms originating from marine reptiles" bioRxiv 2022.04.19.488760; doi:10.1101/2022.04.19.488760