Cane toads (Rhinella marina) have evolved changes in their behavior, morphology, and physiology in their <100-year invasion across northern Australia. In this study, we assess whether divergence of skin bacterial microbiomes on toads from sites across northern Australia are affected by host genotype or habitat. We used skin swab samples from wild toads from four sites to quantify the amount of divergence of bacterial communities. We then used a common garden experiment to detect whether those changes among sites' communities are found in offspring when raised at a single location. The MiSeq sequences are from skin swab samples of wild, relocated parental, and common garden offspring toads collected in September 2017.
| Accession | PRJNA879253 |
| Data Type | Raw sequence reads |
| Scope | Multispecies |
| Publications | - Published online: Weitzman C et al., "Geographic variation in bacterial assemblages on cane toad skin is influenced more by local environments than by evolved changes in host traits", Biology Open, 2023;12(2)
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| Grants | - "Skin Microbes and Animal Health: Understanding the Ecological Context" (Grant ID ARC-DP210102176, Australian Research Council)
- "Using biological invasions to understand evolutionary processes" (Grant ID ARC-FL120100074, Australian Research Council)
- "Integrating ecoimmunology and population ecology to understand how tropical reptiles deal with novel challenges" (Grant ID ARC-FT120100095, Australian Research Council)
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| Submission | Registration date: 11-Sep-2022
Charles Darwin University |
| Relevance | Environmental |
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| Sequence data |
| SRA Experiments | 96 |
| Other datasets |
| BioSample | 96 |