Gut microbiome of grasshopper. insect gut metagenome

Microbial community of filed collected grasshopper gut (Acrididae sp.). Grasshoppers (Orthoptera: Acrididae) are important agricultural pest worldwide. Outbreak of grasshoppers is a disaster because of their capability to consuming the agricultural plants. However, It is of great interest to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the ability of grasshoppers to utilize plant fiber. Grasshoppers can be served as a good model to explore the biofuel important enzymes and natural biocatalysts for the biorefinery improvement. For this purpose, a metagenome illumine library was constructed using the DNA of grasshopper gut microbiota. Sequencing of this library generated 22,335 predicted gene models.