Using fecal DNA metabarcoding to test if diet of migratory birds is correlated with Pb exposure level at a contaminated site in north Idaho: CO1 dataset

Fecal samples from migratory birds were collected from contaminated wetlands in the Bunker Hill Lower Basin Coeur ’d Alene River Watershed and from a Hepton Lake reference area St. Joe River Watershed during 2022-2024. Mitochondrial CO1 metabarcoding was used to confirm bird taxa from which samples were collected. 

Impact/Purpose

This dataset consists of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (CO1) amplicon-sequencing reads from Anseriformes fecal metagenomic DNA samples. These sequences can be used for metabarcoding to confirm bird taxa from which samples were collected. The purpose of this dataset is to make sequences publicly-available through the NCBI sequence read archive database.

Citation

Reichman, J. AND M. Jankowski. Using fecal DNA metabarcoding to test if diet of migratory birds is correlated with Pb exposure level at a contaminated site in north Idaho: CO1 dataset. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, 2025. [DOI: 10.23719/1532394]

DOI: Using fecal DNA metabarcoding to test if diet of migratory birds is correlated with Pb exposure level at a contaminated site in north Idaho: CO1 dataset