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Two hundred and fifty-four metagenome-assembled bacterial genomes from the bank vole gut microbiota.

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Abstract Vertebrate gut microbiota provide many essential services to their host. To better understand the diversity of such services provided by gut microbiota in wild rodents, we assembled metagenome shotgun sequence data from a small mammal, the bank vole Myodes glareolus (Rodentia, Cricetidae). We were able to identify 254 metagenome assembled genomes (MAGs) that were at least 50% ( n  = 133 MAGs), 80% ( n  = 77 MAGs) or 95% ( n  = 44 MAGs) complete. As typical for a rodent gut microbiota, these MAGs are dominated by taxa assigned to the phyla Bacteroidetes ( n  = 132 MAGs) and Firmicutes ( n  = 80), with some Spirochaetes ( n  = 15) and Proteobacteria ( n  = 11). Based on coverage over contigs, Bacteroidetes were estimated to be most abundant group, followed by Firmicutes, Spirochaetes and Proteobacteria. These draft bacterial genomes can be used freely to determine the likely functions of gut microbiota community composition in wild rodents.