The sequencing samples are prepared according to the Illumina 16S rDNA Metagenomic Sequencing Library protocols. The 16S rDNA genes were amplified using 16S rDNA V3-V4 primers (16S rDNA Amplicon PCR Forward Primer: 5′ TCGTCGGCAGCGTCAGATGTGTATAAGAGACA GCCTACGGGNGGCWGCAG; 16S rDNA Amplicon PCR Reverse Primer: 5′ GTCTCGTGGGC TCGGAGATGTGTATAAGAGA CAGGACTACHVGGGTATCTAATCC). Input gDNA was amplified with 16S rDNA V3-V4 primers, and a subsequent limited cycle amplification step was performed to add multiplexing indices and Illumina sequencing adapters [39 (link)]. The final products were normalized and pooled using the PicoGreen, and the size of libraries were verified using the TapeStation DNA screentape D1000 (Agilent). And sequencing (2 × 300) was done using the MiSeq™ platform (Illumina) according to the standard protocol.
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