16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequence Data from Feces of Wild Deer (Cervus nippon) in Japan

Kasumi Ishida-Kuroki; Nachiko Takeshita; Yoshihiro Nitta; Takehisa Chuma; Ken Maeda; Hiroshi Shimoda; Ai Takano; Tsutomu Sekizaki

doi:10.1128/MRA.00346-20

16S rRNA Gene Amplicon Sequence Data from Feces of Wild Deer (Cervus nippon) in Japan

Microbiol Resour Announc. 2020 May 28;9(22):e00346-20. doi: 10.1128/MRA.00346-20.

Authors

Kasumi Ishida-Kuroki¹, Nachiko Takeshita¹, Yoshihiro Nitta¹, Takehisa Chuma², Ken Maeda³, Hiroshi Shimoda³, Ai Takano⁴, Tsutomu Sekizaki⁵

Affiliations

¹ Research Center for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
² Laboratory of Veterinary Public Health, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan.
³ Laboratory of Veterinary Microbiology, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan.
⁴ Laboratory of Veterinary Epidemiology, Joint Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Yamaguchi University, Yamaguchi, Japan.
⁵ Research Center for Food Safety, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan asekizak@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp.

Abstract

We report 16S rRNA amplicon sequence data from feces of 109 wild deer in Japan. The dominant bacterial taxa in fecal microbiota of wild deer hunted between village and mountainous areas and those living on Miyajima Island and in Nara Park were similar but differed in abundance.