16S rRNA metagenomic data of microbial diversity of Pheidole decarinata Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) workers
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2020-07-17
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Mohammed Ahmed Ashigar
Abdul Hafiz Ab Majid
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Elsevier
Abstract
Metagenomic datasets of the microbial DNA of workers of a Pheidole decarinata Santschi (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) around houses with three replicates were presented. Next-generation sequencing of the microbial DNA was performed on an Illumina Miseq platform. QIIME (version 1.9.1) was used to analyze the raw fastq files. Metagenome of the three (3) samples consist of 333,708 sequences representing 137,359,149 bps with an average length of 413.67 bps. The sequence data is available at the NCBI SRA with the bioproject number PRJNA632430. Community analysis revealed Proteobacteria was the predominant (84.77%) microbial community present in the microbial DNA of workers of the P. decarinata.
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The microbial DNA of the ant samples were extracted from a pooled of crushed minors and majors of Pheidole decarinata collected within urban communities of Lafia, Nigeria using HiYield™ Genomic DNA isolation kit (Real Biotech Corporation, Taiwan). 16S (v3-v4) amplicon metagenomic sequencing was performed on Illumina MiSeq platform.
Link to data: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sra/PRJNA632430