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    "tag": 19730,
    "title": "Screening Coral Tissue Samples (Colpophyllia natans) Collected From the Florida Keys Using a Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) Antibiotic Resistance Gene Microarray \u2013 Raw Data",
    "pubdate": "20260217",
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    "series_name": null,
    "issue": null,
    "publish": null,
    "publisher_name": null,
    "onlink": "https:\/\/cmgds.marine.usgs.gov\/catalog\/spcmsc\/Cnat2022_ARG_FGDC_metadata.faq.html",
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    "descript": "The files in this data release are those referenced in the journal article by Neely and others (2026) entitled \"Assessment of antibiotic resistance genes in Caribbean corals, including those treated with amoxicillin.\" They represent the raw fluorescence data and threshold cycle (Ct) data generated from quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) microarray runs using deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extractions from 12 coral (Colpophyllia natans) samples as templates. These files were produced by the Applied Biosystems StepOnePlus\u2122 Real-Time PCR System Software (version 2.2.2). The coral tissue samples were collected on November 17th, 2022, from Cheeca Rocks in the Florida Keys from depths ranging from 9 to 13 feet (2.7 to 4.0 meters). The samples were collected purpose of determining whether there is a higher incidence or diversity of microbial antibiotic resistance genes (ARG) in corals that have previously been treated for stony coral tissue loss disease (SCTLD) with amoxicillin base2B as compared to untreated coral. Tissue samples were preserved in RNAlater, and frozen until shipped for processing.  The frozen coral samples were sent from Nova Southeastern University (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) and received on November 23rd 2022, by the U.S. Geological Survey St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (USGS SPCMSC) Coral Microbial Ecology Laboratory in St. Petersburg, Florida (FL), USA, and immediately frozen at minus twenty degrees Celsius (-20\u00b0C) until processing. Microbial DNA extractions from the coral samples were performed on December 13th 2022, using a Qiagen Dneasy PowerBiofilm kit. All qPCR runs were performed between January and February 2023 on an Applied Biosystems StepOnePlus\u2122 Real-Time PCR System, using Qiagen Microbial DNA qPCR Arrays ARG (BAID-1901ZRC-24), and data files were exported as Microsoft Excel files (.xls) and converted into comma-separated values (.csv) files. The data files were then edited to remove columns that contained no values, or that did not apply to this dataset.",
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    "originator": [
        {
            "name": "Kellogg, Christina A.",
            "role": "Author"
        },
        {
            "name": "Voelschow, Julie J.",
            "role": "Author"
        }
    ],
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            "name": "bacteria",
            "scope": "Single celled microorganisms, beneficial or pathogenic, without a nuclear membrane."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "177",
            "name": "coelenterates",
            "scope": "Freshwater and marine invertebrates, such as corals, jellyfish, and sea anemones, belonging to the phylum Coelenterata and living as sedentary polyps or free swimming medusae."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "735",
            "name": "microbiology",
            "scope": "Branch of biology dealing with organisms too small to be seen without the use of a microscope."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 2,
            "code": "919",
            "name": "polymerase chain reaction",
            "scope": "Biochemical technique that uses enzymes to replicate new nucleotides of DNA from DNA triphosphates using DNA as a template."
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "002",
            "name": "biota",
            "scope": "Flora or fauna in natural environment, for example wildlife, vegetation, biological sciences, ecology, wilderness, sea life, wetlands, habitat, biological resources"
        },
        {
            "thcode": 15,
            "code": "014",
            "name": "oceans",
            "scope": "Features and characteristics of salt water bodies (excluding inland waters), for example tides, tidal waves, coastal information, reefs, maritime, outer continental shelf submerged lands, shoreline"
        }
    ],
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    "fan": [
        "2022-343-DD"
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