This Hao_et_al_MetaDNACommunity_README.txt file was generated on 20200310 by Hao et al. ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATio_N ------------------- Title of Dataset: Using full-length metabarcoding and DNA barcoding to infer community assembly for speciose taxonomic groups: a case study Author Information (Name, Institution, Address, Email) Principal Investigator: Mengdi Hao, Caiqing Yang, Yinan Li,...and Aibing Zhang (zhangab2008@cnu.edu.cn). College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, People’s Republic of China. Date of data collection: 2010-2013. Geographic location of data collection: Beijing, China. The collection of the data was supported by China National Funds for Distinguished Young Scientists (31425023), the Natural Science Foundation of China (31272340, 31401121, 31601877 and 31772501), the Chinese Universities Scientific Fund (2017QC114), Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT_17R75), Support Project of High-level Teachers in Beijing Municipal Universities (grant number IDHT20180518) and Academy for Multidisciplinary Studies, Capital Normal University to Ai-bing ZHANG. -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- 1.MorphologicalTraitDATA.csv For 7568 specimens, eight morphological traits were mearsured. Column labels: Number: Sample size IDs: the ID of each specimen; Max.Wing.Width: wing span Chest.Length: thorax length Chest.Width: thorax width Abdominal.Width: abdomen width Body.Length: body length Forewing.Length: forewing edge Forewing.Area: forewing area Hindwing.Area: hindwing area FAMILY: family name GENUS: genus name SPECIES: species name 2.EcologicalTraitDATA.xlsx An average values of 19 ecological parameters downloaded from WorldClim (Hijmans et al. 2005) at the resolution of 1km^2, for each species. Column labels: species: species name of each specimen; Bio_1: Annual Mean Temperature Bio_2: Mean Diurnal Range (Mean of monthly (max temp - min temp)) Bio_3: Isothermality(Bio_2/Bio_7) (* 100) Bio_4: Temperature Seasonality(standard deviation *100) Bio_5: Max Temperature of Warmest Month Bio_6: Min Temperature of Coldest Month Bio_7: Temperature Annual Range(Bio_5-Bio_6) Bio_8: Mean Temperature of Wettest Quarter Bio_9: Mean Temperature of Driest Quarter Bio_10: Mean Temperature of Warmest Quarter Bio_11: Mean Temperature of Coldest Quarter Bio_12: Annual Precipitation Bio_13: Precipitation of Wettest Month Bio_14: Precipitation of Driest Month Bio_15: Precipitation Seasonality (Coefficient of Variation) Bio_16: Precipitation of Wettest Quarter Bio_17: Precipitation of Driest Quarter Bio_18: Precipitation of Warmest Quarter Bio_19: Precipitation of Coldest Quarter 3.NuclearGenBank.xls 19 nuclear gene names and corresponding accession number of GenBank (Cho et al. 2011) for 23 families we obtained in this study. 4.COIGenBank.xlsx List COI barcoding of specimens and corresponding GenBank Accession Numbers. 5.Perl_SamplingCompleteness.pl The Perl script for calculating accumulated species number against sampling size.