Gut microbiota of housefly larvae fed with aerobic or facultative anaerobic Klebsiella pneumoniae and their specific bacteriophages, respectively Raw sequence reads. Gut microbiota of housefly larvae fed with aerobic or facultative anaerobic Klebsiella pneumoniae and their specific bacteriophages, respectively

In this study, the anaerobic bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae KX and the facultative anaerobic bacterium Klebsiella pneumoniae KY were isolated from the intestinal tracts of housefly larvae. The K. pneumoniae KX/KY-specific bacteriophages KXP/KYP were further isolated from sewage. Phage KXP/KYP was used as an accurate tool to analyse the effects of alterations in K. pneumoniae abundance on larval development.