Sequencing libraries were generated using NEB Next® Ultra™ DNA Library Prep Kit (New England Biolabs, MA, United States) following the manufacturer’s recommendations and index codes were added. The library quality was assessed using the Qubit® dsDNA HS Assay Kit (Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY) and Agilent 4200 system (Agilent, Santa Clara, CA). The libraries were sequenced on an Illumina NovaSeq 6000 and 150 bp paired-end reads were generated. The raw data in this study have been deposited in the GenBank Sequence Read Archive database. The accession number is PRJNA797730.
The raw data processing with SOAPnuke (v1.5.6; Chen et al., 2018 (link)) were conducted to acquire the clean data for subsequent analysis. To remove the host sequence, clean reads were compared with the ribosome database (Silva.132) and host reference genome of Pacific white shrimp (NCBI Project ID: PRJNA438564; Zhang et al., 2019 (link)), respectively, with Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) software (v0.7.17, parameter: mem –k 30; Li and Durbin, 2009 (link)). The results that comparison length was less than 80% of the length of reads would be filtered, and then removed the host sequence (Li and Durbin, 2009 (link)).