The Earth Hologenome Initiative: Data Release 1

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

doi:10.1093/gigascience/giaf102

The Earth Hologenome Initiative: Data Release 1

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

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Copenhagen
University of Aveiro
Station d’Ecologie Théorique et Expérimentale
Universitá degli Studi dell'Insubria
Experimental Zooprophylactic Institute of Lombardia and Emilia Romagna "Bruno Ubertini"
Bangor University
University of Konstanz
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour
Luondua Boreal Research Station
Oxford Brookes University
University of Valencia
Lund University
Universidade do Porto
Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade do Porto
Doñana Biological Station-CSIC
Spanish Government
University of Würzburg
University of Kent
Ministry of Agro-Industry and Food Security
Mauritian Wildlife Foundation
Aranzadi Science Foundation
University of Sarajevo
University of Copenhagen
University of Tasmania
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Biology

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	giaf102
Journal	GigaScience
Volume	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaf102
State	Published - 2025

Keywords

Bacteria
Genome
Genome-resolved metagenomics
MAG
Metagenome-assembled genome
Metagenomics
Microbiome
Microbiota

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Gaun, N., Pietroni, C., Martin-Bideguren, G., Lauritsen, J., Aizpurua, O., Fernandes, J. M., Ferreira, E., Aubret, F., Sarraude, T., Perry, C., Wauters, L., Romeo, C., Spada, M., Tranquillo, C., Sutton, A. O., Griesser, M., Warrington, M. H., de Lanuza, G. P. I., Abalos, J., ... Eisenhofer, R. (2025). The Earth Hologenome Initiative: Data Release 1. GigaScience, 14, Article giaf102. https://doi.org/10.1093/gigascience/giaf102

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