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The metagenomics datasets for the geographic and life cycle samples of Li et al. (2018) are presented here in four separate folders: (OR_GEO) original reads for the geographic samples; (FFS_GEO) final filtered sequences for the geographic samples; (OR_LC) original reads for the life cycle samples; and (FFS_LC) final filtered sequences for the life cycle samples. Each separate dataset is labelled with the abbreviation of its sample (see Table 2 and Figure 1 of Li et al., 2018) followed by either “OR” or “FFS” (for original reads or final filtered sequences, respectively). For example, the “SY3_OR” dataset includes the original reads for the SY₃ geographic sample, whereas the “S6_FFS” dataset contains the final filtered sequences for the S6 life cycle collection.