Carina D. Heussler1, 2, †, Thomas Klammsteiner1, 2, †, Heribert Insam2, Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner1, Florian M. Steiner1

1Department of Ecology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
2Department of Microbiology, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

equal contribution


This website provides reproducible documentation for the methods and tools used to process and analyze the sequence data from our study on decrypting the microbiota during black soldier fly reproduction and oviposition. The work was conducted by the Black Soldier Fly working group Innsbruck.


To cite these data:

Heussler, C.D., Klammsteiner, T., Insam, H., Schlick-Steiner, B.C., Steiner, F.M. (2022). Decrypting the microbiota on the black soldier fly’s embryo surface and their origin during development. URL: https://tklammsteiner.github.io/eggsurfacemicrobiome



Experimental design

Fig. 1 - Visualization of the experimental design. Circled numbers indicate the main steps to obtain samples from various tissues and developmental stages of the black soldier fly. Orange uppercase letters describe the abbrevations for these samples.




www.fromwastetofeed.com