Database on eukaryotic symbionts of native and invasive gammarids (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in the Baltic region of Poland with information on water parameters for sampling sites

Volodimir Sarabeev; Mykola Ovcharenko; Anna Jarosiewicz; Abdulmalik Ahmed; Rosa Ana Sueiro; Jose Manuel Leiro

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.109308

Database on eukaryotic symbionts of native and invasive gammarids (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in the Baltic region of Poland with information on water parameters for sampling sites

Data Brief. 2023 Jun 9:49:109308. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109308. eCollection 2023 Aug.

Authors

Volodimir Sarabeev^{1

2}, Mykola Ovcharenko³, Anna Jarosiewicz³, Abdulmalik Ahmed¹, Rosa Ana Sueiro⁴, Jose Manuel Leiro⁴

Affiliations

¹ Department of Biology, Zaporizhzhia National University, Zhukovskogo 66, 69063 Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
² Institute of Parasitology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Hlinkova 3, 04001 Košice, Slovak Republic.
³ Institute of Biology and Science of Earth, Pomeranian University in Słupsk, Arciszewskiego 22b, 76200 Słupsk, Poland.
⁴ Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Institute of Research in Biological and Chemical Analysis, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

Abstract

This dataset documents the diversity of eukaryotic endo- and epibiotic organisms from 612 host individuals of seven gammarid (Amphipoda) species (Gammarus pulex, Gammarus zaddachi, Gammarus roeselii, Gammarus tigrinus, Dikerogammarus villosus, Pontogammarus robustoides, Echinogammarus ischnus) of native and invasive origin in the Baltic region of Poland. We identify 60 symbiotic species of nine phyla from 16 localities of freshwater and brackish habitats. Twenty-nine symbiotic species belonged to the Ciliophora, 12 to Apicomplexa, 8 to Microsporidia, 3 to Platyhelminthes, 2 to Acanthocephala, 2 to Nematoda, 2 to Rotifera, 1 to Choanozoa and 1 to Nematomorha. The material in this Data in Brief paper is composed of three Microsoft® Excel files. The first file represents the raw data on the number of individuals (infrapopulation size) of each eukaryotic symbiont taxa recorded in each host individual and location. The data set contains information on the assemblage of symbionts per host individual in one table-matrix; macro- (host) and symbiont taxa name, host length, the date of collection, the geographic coordinates and locality name in columns; and amphipod host specimens in lines. The second file reports the symbiont species list (the species breakdown by phyla in spreadsheets) with information on host species, sampling date, locality and geographic coordinates, infection site, obtained sequences (if the case), brief morphological characteristics and microphotographs. The third file reports measured water parameters, habitat features and host density per sample. We generate the present dataset to evaluate the richness, diversity, population and community features of symbiotic organisms in native and invasive gammarid hosts in Poland. Biological sciences: ParasitologyEnvironmental Science: Ecology; Hydrology and Water Quality.

Keywords: Dikerogammarus villosus; Echinogammarus ischnus; Gammarus pulex; Gammarus roeselii; Gammarus tigrinus; Gammarus zaddachi; Pomeranian region; Pontogammarus robustoides.