Johnson, TimothyTorres, SheilaDanzeisen, JessicaClayton, JonathanWard, TonyaKnights, DanHuang, Hu2016-11-172016-11-172016-11-17https://hdl.handle.net/11299/183048Dataset from sampling of 40 dogs over three time points. Dogs were paired across 20 households. Data is in raw fastq format from amplicon sequencing of the V1-V3 regions of the 16S rRNA gene using Illumina MiSeq.This related study sampled 40 dogs from 20 households over the course of three seasons. Three skin sites were examined. The goal of the study was to determine if a core skin microbiome exists in dogs across time and body site, and if cohabitation impacts sharing of the skin microbiome. This dataset is a part of the Torres_Johnson Canine Microbiome Study.CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedicationhttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/canineskinmicrobiomelongitudinalbacterial communitiesDatasethttp://doi.org/10.13020/D6W01V