Tabular data supporting “A targeted lipidomic dataset of <i>Tenebrio molitor</i> larvae fed diets with different protein levels”

<p dir="ltr">This Figshare dataset contains the tabular data supporting the Data Descriptor entitled “A targeted lipidomic dataset of <i>Tenebrio molitor</i> larvae fed diets with different protein levels.”</p><p dir="ltr">The study used whole <i>Tenebrio molitor</i> larvae reared under four dietary treatments: a wheat bran control and three formulated diets containing 15%, 20%, or 25% crude protein. Twenty biological samples were analyzed, with five independent biological replicates per treatment; each biological sample consisted of 30 fasted larvae pooled from one independent rearing tray.</p><p dir="ltr">Targeted lipidomic profiling was performed by UPLC–MS/MS using a QTRAP 6500+ platform operated in scheduled multiple reaction monitoring (MRM) mode.

The initial targeted panel contained 927 lipid entries. After quality-control filtering using a pooled-QC coefficient-of-variation threshold of <30%, 834 lipid features were retained in the final processed dataset. The reported lipid abundance values are internal-standard-normalized semiquantitative concentration estimates rather than validated absolute concentrations.</p><p dir="ltr">The deposited data files include: <i>Tenebrio molitor</i> sample metadata and experimental grouping; lipid internal-standard information; LC–MS/MS acquisition sequence; quality-control sample intensities and summary statistics; internal-standard peak-area QC metrics; lipid target list and MRM acquisition parameters; lipid annotation and annotation-confidence information; and the final 834-feature semiquantitative lipid concentration matrix.