Mesocosm: Eukaryotic community response to oil and oil-dispersant mixtures in the COAST (Gulf of Mexico, COASTal water mesocosms amended with coastal microbial concentrate)

Twelve 100 L tanks were filled with Gulf of Mexico seawater collected from the Texas coastline, near the TABS buoy R. Four treatments (WAF, CEWAF, DCEWAF, Control) were prepared in triplicate. A coastal plankton slurry was used to seed the tanks. Immediately prior to starting the experiment, 2 L of slurry was stirred into each tank. Gene counts, annotations, differential expression, and KEGG pathway enrichment analysis of eukaryotic genes from a mesocosm experiment. Raw reads and assembled transcripts are deposited at NCBI.