Microbiomes of male and female reared crickets in response to disease
This project contains data from 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of the microbiota of reared crickets. Crickets are important agriculturally due to their nutritional value. Like all farmed animals, crickets are vulnerable to infectious diseases that cause morbidity and mortality, resulting in economic loss for producers. An animal's microbiome plays a major role in the animal's nutrition state and immune system formation. The goal of this experiment was to characterize the microbiomes of male and female crickets and to determine microbiome differences between healthy and diseased crickets.