Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Microbial Communities: A Dataset of Metagenomes From Six Vent Fields

Authors

  • Benedikt Gottwald Department of Microbial Ecology, Schwabische Alb Laboratory for Ecology and Evolution, Munsingen, Germany Author
  • Christien Doeswijk Department of Marine Biology, Vechtstreek Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Weesp, Netherlands Author
  • Esteban Gorostidi Department of Bioinformatics, Guadalhorce Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, Alora, Spain Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22667419

Keywords:

Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Microbial Communities; Biological sciences; Evidence synthesis; Reproducibility; Research methodology

Abstract

Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Microbial Communities has moved quickly from a niche research question to something a wider
community can now investigate with reasonably reliable tools, but the evidence behind it has not always kept pace. We pull
together the current evidence for deep-sea hydrothermal microbial communities, covering the methodological, practical,
regulatory and cost angles, with an eye on where practice has genuinely settled and where researchers and reviewers are still
largely working it out for themselves. Selective, context-specific adoption looks better supported by the evidence gathered here
than either broad rollout or blanket avoidance

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