16S rRNA FASTQ Sequencing Data of Cirrhinus mrigala Gut Microbiome from Indus and Kabul Rivers, Pakistan

This dataset contains raw 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing reads (FASTQ files)from gut microbiome samples of Cirrhinus mrigala collected from: • Indus River• Kabul River• Peshawar Carp Hatchery (control) DNA was extracted from fish gut contents and amplified targeting the16S rRNA gene. Sequencing was performed using the Illumina NovaSeq platform. The dataset includes paired-end FASTQ files for each sample and metadatadescribing sample origin and experimental conditions. These data support the manuscript: "Comparative Bacterial Diversity and their Function in the gut ofCirrhinus mrigala inhabiting the understudied aquatic bodies of Pakistan." The raw reads will also be submitted to the NCBI Sequence Read Archive (SRA).