Metatranscriptomic Sequencing of Winter and Spring Planktonic Communities from Lake Erie, a Laurentian Great Lake

Brittany N Zepernick; Elizabeth R Denison; Justin D Chaffin; George S Bullerjahn; Christa P Pennacchio; Thijs Frenken; Daniel H Peck; James T Anderson; Derek Niles; Arthur Zastepa; R Michael L McKay; Steven W Wilhelm

doi:10.1128/mra.00351-22

Metatranscriptomic Sequencing of Winter and Spring Planktonic Communities from Lake Erie, a Laurentian Great Lake

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2022 Jul 21;11(7):e0035122. doi: 10.1128/mra.00351-22. Epub 2022 Jun 2.

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¹ Department of Microbiology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.
² Stone Laboratory and Ohio Sea Grant, Ohio State University, Put-in-Bay, Ohio, USA.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA.
⁴ Department of Energy Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁵ Great Lakes Institute for Environmental Research, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada.
⁶ U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Neah Bay (WTGB 105), United States Coast Guard 9th District, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
⁷ Orange Force Marine Ltd., Port Stanley, Ontario, Canada.
⁸ Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada Centre for Inland Waters, Burlington, Ontario, Canada.

^# Contributed equally.

Abstract

Previous reports suggest planktonic and under-ice winter microbial communities in Lake Erie are dominated by diatoms. Here, we report the assembled metatranscriptomes of 79 Lake Erie surface water microbial communities spanning both the winter (28 samples) and spring (51 samples) months over spatial, temporal, and climatic gradients in 2019 through 2020.

Metatranscriptomic Sequencing of Winter and Spring Planktonic Communities from Lake Erie, a Laurentian Great Lake

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