title: 16S metabarcoding of microbiota of the Finnish brown stone centipede
design: We evaluated the microbiota species richness and community composition of specimens of the brown stone centipede, Lithobius forficatus (Chilopoda, Lithobiomorpha) from different regions of Finland. Our aim is to gain insights onto the bacterial communities associated with this wild species. We compared population effect on host microbiota using 16S rRNA sequencing.