Data from:Stoichiometric acclimation of a bacterial parasite to shifts in the diet quality of a single host

We reared infrapopulations of the microparasite Pasteuria ramosa in Daphnia magna fed high or low phosphorus (P) diets. Then, because this parasite is transmitted from a spore bank to individual hosts, we pooled spores from hosts within each diet treatment and used them to infect subsequent hosts. We explored the mechanism for this apparent acclimation to host diet by analyzing the stoichiometry of infrapopulations as stoichiometric trait distributions characterized by the mean, functional richness, functional evenness, and functional divergence of spores for each stoichiometric trait carbon (C), nitrogen (N), P, C:N, C:P and N:P.