title: Correlates of gut community composition across an ant species (Cephalotes varians) elucidate causes and consequences of symbiotic variability
design: Three types of DNA samples were submitted to the Research and Testing Laboratory for bacterial tag-encoded FLX-titanium amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP) of 16S rRNA amplicons using primers Gray28F and Gray519R: 1) DNA extracted from the guts of individual field-caught worker ants, 2) DNA from environmental sources, and 3) normalized and pooled DNA samples extracted individually from the guts of three workers at the start of experiment 2 and three workers after two months of pollen feeding.