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Short Citation
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, 2025: Cryptobiota metabarcoding using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (ARMS) Deployed at Coral Reef Sites across American Samoa from 2012 to 2015, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/64267.
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DOI: 10.7289/v51v5c82

Abstract

The data described here includes cytochrome oxidase I (COI) DNA metabarcoding data collected from Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS). ARMS were deployed by the NOAA Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC), Ecosystem Sciences Division (formerly the Coral Reef Ecosystem Division) under the National Coral Reef Monitoring Program (NCRMP) at stationary climate monitoring sites and used to assess and monitor cryptic reef diversity in American Samoa. Developed in collaboration with the Census of Marine Life (CoML) Census of Coral Reef Ecosystems (CReefs), ARMS were designed to mimic the structural complexity of a reef and attract/collect colonizing marine invertebrates. The key innovation of the ARMS method is that biodiversity is sampled over precisely the same surface area in the exact same manner.

These data were gathered at specific reef sites across American Samoa. ARMS units were set-up, deployed and recovered as described in the ARMS record in the related items section below. After ARMS were disassembled, different size fractions of samples and plate scrapings were preserved in ethanol for metabarcoding.

Distribution Information

  • Illumina Sequences
    ranges from 17 to 600 MB

    Illumina sequences are available in NCBI SRA (Sequence Read Archive) for each successfully sequenced fraction for each ARMS unit. Metabarcoding data was submitted to Genbank via Genome - https://geome-db.org/ which tags and records metadata associated with sequence files.

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Please cite PIFSC Ecosystem Sciences Division when using the data.

Suggested citation:

Ecosystem Sciences Division, Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center, 2020: Cryptobiota metabarcoding using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structure (ARMS) Deployed at Coral Reef Sites across American Samoa from 2012 to 2015, https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/inport/item/64267.

Controlled Theme Keywords

biota, oceans

Child Items

Type Title
Entity ARMS Metabarcoding

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Metadata Contact
Brooke Olenski
brooke.olenski@noaa.gov

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Geographic Area 1

-170.76336° W, -168.13792° E, -14.17737° N, -14.559317° S

Time Frame 1
2012-04-03 - 2015-03-26

ARMS across American Samoa, deployed in 2012 and recovered in 2015