In order to better describe both ancient and contemporary migratory flows associated with the North Atlantic abyssal fauna as part of the EC H2020 iAtlantic project, this dataset provides a collection of connectivity maps for several engineer species from hydrothermal springs on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, from mussels of cold seeps on both sides of the Atlantic and, from deep-water corals in the NE Atlantic. These maps and the associated migrant flow matrices are derived from several demogenetic model analyses (dadi, moments and divmigrate) using multi-locus genotype data derived from a sub-sampling of the genomes of these target species. For each species, the dataset includes a series of shapefiles with a pdf map, the file of the geographic coordinates of the studied localities with a flow matrix, as well as the file of the multi-locus genotypes used to carry out the genetic analysis of the populations and establish the migratory flows.

Metabarcoding data were produced based on samples gathered at Ifremer where the DNA was extracted; PCR libraries were built at Ifremer and Genseq; libraries were sequenced at Novogene. The data to download contain: 1/d emultiplexed raw data, 2/ metadata, and 3) Scripts to process data and taxonomically assign DNA sequences 4) Rmarkdown to analyze communities.