Chicken tissue microbial decomposition study: bird metagenome Raw sequence reads. bird metagenome

We couple microbial forensics with molecular dietary analysis to quantify species interactions and identify scavenging by invasive rats on native and introduced birds in Hawaii. We characterized bacterial signatures of bird carcass decay by conducting 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing on chicken (Gallus gallus domesticus) tissues collected over a 11-day decomposition study. This is the data we are uploading here. We then we characterized the gut microbiome of the same rats using 16S rRNA high-throughput sequencing and identified 17 bacterial taxa that were (i) detected only in the rats that had consumed birds (n = 20/51) and (ii) were indicative of decaying tissue in the chicken model. Those data will be uploaded as a second dataset.

本研究将微生物法医（microbial forensics）与分子饮食分析相结合，以量化物种间相互作用，并识别夏威夷地区入侵鼠类对本土及引入鸟类的食腐行为。我们通过对为期11天的腐败实验中采集的家鸡（Gallus gallus domesticus）组织开展16S rRNA高通量测序，解析了鸟类尸体腐败过程中的细菌特征谱。本研究上传的即为该数据集。随后，我们采用16S rRNA高通量测序对同一批鼠类的肠道菌群进行解析，共鉴定出17个细菌分类群：这些分类群（1）仅在食用过鸟类的鼠类（n=20/51）中被检出；（2）可指示家鸡模型中的腐败组织。该部分数据将作为第二数据集上传。