Acknowledgments
General: We especially thank the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) for promoting our collaboration and the Sorong Polytechnic of Marine and Fisheries (Politeknik KP Sorong, West Papua) for providing the vessel Airaha 02 that we used in this campaign. We are grateful to the crew of the Aihara 02 for assisting us during the operations and SPYGEN staff for the technical support in the laboratory.
Funding: Fieldwork and laboratory activities were supported by the Lengguru 2017 Project (www.lengguru.org), conducted by the French National Research Institute for Sustainable Development (IRD), the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) with the Research Center for Oceanography (RCO, the Politeknik KP Sorong), the University of Papua (UNIPA) with the help of the Institut Français in Indonesia (IFI) and with corporate sponsorship from the Total Foundation and TIPCO company. The sequencing was funded by the “Explorations de Monaco”.
Author contributions: J.B.J, I.B.V., K., L.P., D.M. and R.H. designed research; J.B.J and R.H. design the specific research methods of data collection and the sampling strategy; J.B.J, R.S.U., K., and R.H. collected samples and data; T.D. coordinated the biomolecular analyses; J.B.J., R.S.U. and V.M. performed the bioinformatics analyses; J.B.J, R.S.U., V.M., T.D., L.P., D.M. and R.H. defined sequencing strategy, analyzed and interpreted data; J.B.J wrote the initial draft and designed the figures; J.B.J, R.S.U., V.M., I.B.V., Y.H.S., K., T.D., L.P., D.M. and R.H. wrote the paper and approved the final draft; and L.P., D.M. and R.H. acquired funding to conduct the study.
Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.
Data and materials availability: The sequencing run that supports the findings of this study will be available in Dryad digital repository and the metabarcoding pipelines available in GitLab will be stored in a long-term open access archive following paper acceptance.
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