To better understand the benthic ecosystem near vents off Gueishan Island, we examined the microbial communities across the three domains of life in sediments collected at different distances from the vent area using small-subunit ribosomal RNA pyrosequencing.
GBIF url: https://www.gbif.org/dataset/e33ac3eb-bd50-4e18-bb88-fe5d3e57d243
Homepage: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/metagenomics/studies/MGYS00004129
Citation: MGnify (2019). Microbial diversity in shallow water hydrothermal sediments of Gueishan Island, Taiwan. Sampling event dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ysaaec accessed via GBIF.org on 2025-10-28.