Characterising Soil Eukaryotic Diversity From NEON Metagenomics Datasets.

ABSTRACT: Belowground eukaryotic diversity serves a vital role in soil ecosystem functioning, yet the composition, structure, and macroecology of these communities are significantly under-characterized. The National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) provides publicly available datasets from long-term surveillance of numerous taxa and ecosystem properties. However, this dataset is not routinely evaluated for its eukaryotic component, likely because analyzing metagenomes for eukaryotic sequences is hampered by low relative sequence abundance, large genomes, poorer eukaryote representation in public reference databases, and is not yet mainstream. We mined the NEON soil metagenome datasets for 18S rRNA sequences using a custom-built pipeline and produced a preliminary assessment of biodiversity tren

SUBMITTER: Vilonen L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12627910 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature