Amplicon And Metagenomic Data From Fumarole-associated Geothermal Features Of Hawai’i

The Hawaiian islands are among the most geologically and volcanically active places on Earth. While the Hawaiian Archipelago is known for its animal and plant diversity, much less is known about microbial diversity in the area’s diverse habitats.

In this study, we focused on steam vent associated biofilms found on the most volcanically active island of Hawai‘i, also known as the Big Island.

From 46 samples from various biofilms and associated features around fumaroles emitting water steam, we generated amplicon and metagenomic sequences. Amplicon data showed that Chloroflexota and Cyanobacteriota are the numerically dominant phyla in these biofilm communities.

We constructed 363 non-redundant medium to high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes (MAGs) that are at least 70% complete and with less than 5% contamination. Ten MAGs belong in the domain Archaea, and 353 belong in the domain Bacteria.

This dataset could provide valuable insights into microbial diversity and ecology around volcanic features in Hawai‘i and elsewhere.

Maximum likelihood phylogenomic tree of 358 dereplicated archaeal and bacterial
MAGs that are at least 70% complete and with less than 5% contamination. Phyla are colored
and represented by the innermost ring next to the taxa labels. The presence or absence of
circles in the middle ring indicate whether full or partial 16S rRNA gene fragments were
recovered in the MAGs. The bar charts in the outermost ring show genome completeness
estimates. A single MAG that belongs to the phylum Babelota was excluded by the PhyloPhlAn
analysis pipeline and was not in this tree. — biorxiv.org

Amplicon and metagenomic data from fumarole-associated geothermal features of Hawaii, biorxiv.org (open access)

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