Metagenomic data on bacterial diversity profiling of high-microbial-abundance tropical marine sponges Aaptos aaptos and Xestospongia muta from waters off terengganu, South China Sea

Marine sponges are acknowledged as a bacterial hotspot and resource of novel natural products or genetic material with industrial or commercial potential. However, sponge-associated bacteria are difficult to be cultivated and the production of their desirable metabolites is inadequate in terms of ra...

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Main Authors: Tan Suet May Amelia, Nyok-Sean Lau, Al-Ashraf Abdullah Amirul, Kesaven Bhubalan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-08-01
Series:Data in Brief
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340920308659