Fungal Diversity in a Commercial Dairy from Manure, Lagoons, Troughs, and Flies

Shotgun metagenomics data from a commercial dairy investigates fungal communities in manure, lagoons, troughs, and flies. The study by Tawni L. Crippen, published on figshare in April 2026, compares two barn management systems and identifies locations of potential pathogens and beneficial species. The 97.8 KB dataset is available as a PDF.

Use Cases

• Compare fungal community composition between different dairy facility components based on the described sample types.
• Identify potential reservoirs of mammalian and plant pathogens based on the described location-specific findings.
• Assess the impact of barn management systems on fungal diversity based on the cross-vent and flow-through comparison.
• Investigate species exchange between flies and other environmental components based on the described lack of overlapping pathogen profiles.

Strengths

• Data is derived from shotgun metagenomics, a high-resolution sequencing method.
• Samples cover four distinct environmental components within a working dairy facility.
• Explicitly compares two barn management systems (cross-vent and flow-through).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; data structure must be inferred from the PDF.
• The dataset is very small at 97.8 KB, indicating limited scope or summary-level data.
• Geographic location and specific time range of sample collection are not provided.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Tawni L. Crippen.

Collection Method

Shotgun metagenomics sequencing of environmental samples.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-13 13:10:24.

Geography

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