Gut bacterial communities of Chrysomela tremulae larvae and adults

Gut bacterial communities from laboratory-reared Chrysomela tremulae adults and larvae. The samples contained in the dataset are:12 beetle gut samples (6 per life stage, 5 pooled guts per sample)1 whole adult reference sample (5 whole adult beetles pooled to create one sample)1 whole larva reference sample (5 whole adult beetles pooled to create one sample)1 mock community as positive control (ZymoBIOMICS Microbial Community Standard cat. num. D6300)1 negative control (extraction reagents without any biological samples)Bacterial 16S rRNA gene regions were sequenced by a commercial provider (StarSeq, Mainz, Germany) on a MiSeq platform (Illumina) using double indexing and a paired-end approach with a read length of 300 nucleotides.