Data associated with "Early life exposure to the antibiotic tetracycline alters in-hive development of the adult honey bee gut microbiome"

These are bacterial 16S rRNA gene amplicon data and metadata from a honey bee experiment examining the impact of the antibiotic tetracycline on in-hive development of the gut microbiome. Honey bees were treated with tetracycline or control sucrose at emergence, marked by treatment, and then placed back in hives. Bees from treatment and control groups were then re-collected from hives at 7 and 14 days following treatment. The dataset includes bacterial 16S amplicon sequences, sequencing information necessary for demultiplexing and using the amplicon data, and total bacterial 16S qPCR data for a subset of the samples.