Assessing deep-sea marine metazoan and bacterial community structure in cold-seep, canyon, and cold-water coral reef habitats using high-throughput sequencing of DNA extracted from water samples

Aunins, Aaron

Assessing deep-sea marine metazoan and bacterial community structure in cold-seep, canyon, and cold-water coral reef habitats using high-throughput sequencing of DNA extracted from water samples

Aaron Aunins¹, Cheryl Morrison¹ and Christina Kellogg², (1)USGS Leetown Science Center, Kearneysville, WV, United States, (2)USGS Saint Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, Saint Petersburg, FL, United States