The Earth Hologenome Initiative: Data Release 1
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: BACKGROUND: The Earth Hologenome Initiative (EHI) is a global endeavor dedicated to revisit fundamental ecological and evolutionary questions from the systemic host-microbiota perspective, through the standardized generation and analysis of joint animal genomic and associated microbial metagenomic data. RESULTS: The first data release of the EHI contains 968 shotgun DNA sequencing read files containing 5.2 TB of raw genomic and metagenomic data derived from 21 vertebrate species sampled across 12 countries, as well as 17,666 metagenome-assembled genomes reconstructed from these data. CONCLUSIONS: The dataset can be used to address fundamental questions about host-microbiota interactions and will be available to the research community under the EHI data usage conditions.
Source: GigaScience
Authors: Nanna Gaun, Carlotta Pietroni, Garazi Martin-Bideguren, Jonas Lauritsen, Ostaizka Aizpurua, Joana M Fernandes, Eduardo Ferreira, Fabien Aubret, Tom Sarraude, Constant Perry, Lucas Wauters, Claudia Romeo, Martina Spada, Claudia Tranquillo, Alex O Sutton, Michael Griesser, Miyako H Warrington, Guillem Pérez i de Lanuza, Javier Abalos, Prem Aguilar, Ferran de la Cruz, Javier Juste, Pedro Alonso-Alonso, Jim Groombridge, Rebecca Louch, Kevin Ruhomaun, Sion Henshaw, Carlos Cabido, Ion Garin Barrio, Emina Šunje, Peter Hosner, Ivan Prates, Geoffrey M While, Roberto García-Roa, Tobias Uller, Nathalie Feiner, Elisa Bonaccorso, Pernille Klein-Ipsen, Rosalina Molberg Rotovnik, Antton Alberdi, Raphael Eisenhofer
Institutions: University of Copenhagen, Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, University of Aveiro, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Station d’Écologie Théorique et Expérimentale, University of Insubria, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna "Bruno Ubertini", Bangor University, University of Konstanz, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Oxford Brookes University, Universitat de València, Lund University, Universidade do Porto, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Epidemiología y Salud Pública, University of Würzburg, University of Kent, Ministry of Agro Industry and Food Security, Government of Mauritius, Mauritian Wildlife Foundation, Sociedad de Ciencias Aranzadi, University of Sarajevo, Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Tasmania, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Language: English
Subfield: Molecular Biology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,638
Funders: Villum Fonden, Agência Regional para o Desenvolvimento da Investigação, Tecnologia e Inovação, European Commission, National Research Foundation, Danmarks Grundforskningsfond, Carlsbergfondet, Universitat de València, Centro de Estudos Ambientais e Marinhos, Universidade de Aveiro, HORIZON EUROPE Framework Programme, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Awards: G1196848165, G1431505819, G1448506840, G2499583474, G2853885070, Centro de Estudos do Ambiente e do Mar, Center For Evolutionary Hologenomics (CEH), G4090066734, G4308514862, G4971484151, Land-use changes on human-shaped landscapes: do anthropogenic structures have a role on long-term conservation of biodiversity?, G5896788894, G6657015777, G6999940458, G8326934881, G8782540078, G8905364259
OpenAlex ID: W4414035524