The microbiomes of blowflies and houseflies. insect metagenome

Blowflies and houseflies (Diptera) are mechanical vectors of pathogens that feed and breed in corpses, waste and decaying organic matter, where they also may acquire a significant part of their microbiome. Individual flies collected in urban, natural, and rural environments were sequenced using whole genome shotgun sequencing. Datasets were filtered to remove the fly host genome.