Australian Stink Bug Microbiomes and Host Fitness Data, 2021

294.7 KB of data from a study of gut microbiomes in four Australian stink bug species, including a fitness experiment on the spined citrus bug. The dataset comprises five tables with specimen metadata, sequencing library details, NCBI submission attributes, experimental results, and OTU abundance tables. Author Alihan Katlav published the data on figshare under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze alpha diversity metrics (e.g., Shannon, Simpson, Chao1) for bacterial and fungal communities in insect guts.
• Correlate host fitness traits like development time, longevity, and fecundity with experimental treatments.
• Map microbial community composition using OTU abundance tables from 16S rRNA and ITS amplicon sequencing.
• Prepare data for NCBI SRA/BioSample submission using the provided library and MIMARKS metadata templates.

Strengths

• Includes five distinct, structured tables covering metadata, sequencing, and experimental results.
• Provides standardized environmental descriptors using ENVO-style terms for ecological context.
• Reports alpha diversity metrics calculated separately for bacterial 16S and fungal ITS datasets.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

figshare

Collection Method

Amplicon sequencing (16S rRNA and ITS) of dissected insect midgut tissues, combined with a controlled host fitness experiment.

Time Range

Collection date June 2021.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-20 01:23:27; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia (specific localities are recorded in the metadata).