This project compiles sequence data from marine midwater organisms collected during field expeditions carried out by Karen Osborn lab (Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History). Midwater organisms (those organisms living in the water column between the surface and the seafloor) are important components of marine foods webs. Because they are hard to access and difficult to study, they are still underrepresented in sequence databases and we hope this compilation of sequences will partly address that gap. Our aim is to improve the sequence databases for these organisms to enable future monitoring projects that use molecular tools. The field expeditions span several locations: the Eastern Temperate Pacific off the coast of Oregon and California, the Florida Current Region of the Gulf Stream off the coast of central Florida, and in the Gulf of California off the Mexican coast.
This NCBI BioProject contains DNA barcode records that were generated with support from the federally-funded Smithsonian Institution Barcode Network. Funding for collections was provided by the Global Genome Initiative, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) for ship operations, the Smithsonian Associate Director for Science Research Grants, the Rathbun Crustacean Endowment, and the NSF-UNOLS Early Career Chief Scientist Training Cruises. Less...