Bacterial and Archaeal Metagenome-Assembled Genome Sequences from Svalbard Permafrost

Yaxin Xue; Inge Jonassen; Lise Øvreås; Neslihan Taş

doi:10.1128/MRA.00516-19

Bacterial and Archaeal Metagenome-Assembled Genome Sequences from Svalbard Permafrost

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2019 Jul 3;8(27):e00516-19. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00516-19.

Authors

Yaxin Xue¹, Inge Jonassen², Lise Øvreås^{3

4}, Neslihan Taş^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Computational Biology Unit, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway xue.ethan@gmail.com Lise.Ovreas@uib.no.
² Computational Biology Unit, Department of Informatics, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
³ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway xue.ethan@gmail.com Lise.Ovreas@uib.no.
⁴ University Center in Svalbard, UNIS, Longyearbyen, Norway.
⁵ Earth and Environmental Sciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.
⁶ Biosciences Area, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, USA.

Abstract

Permafrost contains one of the least known soil microbiomes, where microbial populations reside in an ice-locked environment. Here, 56 prokaryotic metagenome-assembled genome (MAG) sequences from 13 phyla are reported. These MAGs will provide information on metabolic pathways that could mediate biogeochemical cycles in Svalbard permafrost.