Dataset: GenBank accession numbers for sequences from deep-sea protobranch bivalves collected on R/V Endeavor cruise EN447 in the Western North Atlantic (34-39N, 68-70W) in 2008 (Ev Deep Sea Molluscs II project)

Sequence data from this research are available on Genbank with metadata (sample location, depth, date, etc.) and  accession numbers listed in the publications given below. Details of molecular work are also described in the various publications listed below.

Refer to publications:
Glazier, A.E., and Etter, R.J. 2014. Cryptic speciation along a bathymetric gradient. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 113:897-913. doi:10.1111/bij.12389
Sequences were deposited in GenBank under accession numbers KM102340-KM102448.

Jennings R.M., and Etter, R.J. 2014. Phylogeographic estimates of colonization of the deep Atlantic by the protobranch bivalve Nucula atacellana. Polish Polar Research, 35: 261-278. Invited Paper. doi:10.2478/popore-2014-0017
New sequences generated in this work were deposited in GenBank under Accessions KJ950184–KJ950282 (Table 1).

Boyle, E.E. and Etter, R.J. 2013. Heteroplasmy in a deep-sea protobranch bivalve suggests an ancient origin of doubly uniparental inheritance of mitochondria in Bivalvia. Marine Biology, 160:413-422. doi:10.1007/s00227-012-2099-y
Sequences from this study are available from GenBank (Accession numbers 16S HQ907887–HQ907914; cytb JX435273–JX435297).

Jennings R.M., Etter, R.J. and Ficarra,L. 2013. Population differentiation and species formation in the deep sea: the potential role of environmental gradients and depth. PLoS ONE, 8(10): e77594. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077594
All sequences were deposited in GenBank (Accessions KC563091-KC563901, Table 2).

Sharma, P.P., Zardus, J.D., Boyle, E.E., González, V.L., Jennings, R.M., McIntyre, E., Bouchet, P., Wheeler, W.C., Etter, R.J., and Giribet, G. 2013. Into the deep: A phylogenetic approach to the bivalve subclass Protobranchia. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 69:188-204. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2013.05.018
Sequences from this study are available from GenBank (Accession numbers given in Table 2).

Etter, R.J., Boyle, E.E., Glazier, A., Jennings, R.M., Dutra, E., and Chase, M.R. 2011. Phylogeography of a pan-Atlantic abyssal protobranch bivalve: Implications for evolution in the deep Atlantic. Molecular Ecology, 20:829-843. doi:10.1111/j.1365-294X.2010.04978.x
Sequences from this study are available from GenBank - accession numbers are HQ452629–HQ452677.

Jennings, R.M., and Etter, R.J. 2011. Exon-Primed, Intron-Crossing (EPIC) loci for five nuclear genes in deep-sea protobranch bivalves: primer design, PCR protocols, and locus utility. Molecular Ecology Resources, 11:1102-1112. doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2011.03038.x
DNA Sequences from this study are available from GenBank - Accessions JF410881– JF411003.