Amplicon sequence variants by sample table from Antarctic methane seeps

Antarctica is estimated to contain as much as a quarter of earth's marine methane, however we have not discovered an active Antarctic methane seep limiting our understanding of the methane cycle. In 2011, an expansive (70m x 1m) microbial mat formed at 10m water depth in the Ross Sea, Antarctica and we carried out 16S rRNA gene analysis on samples collected one year and five years after the methane seep formed.  The data set attached is the resulting Amplicon Sequence Variant table by sample that we used to track the community composition change during this time and in comparison to other sampling in the McMurdo sound region.