ITS (internal transcribed spacer) amplicons were generated with 35 cycles using Invitrogen AccuPrime PCR reagents. These amplicons were used in a second PCR reaction, applying Illumina Nextera XT v.2 (Illumina) barcoded primers to uniquely index each sample as previously described20 (link). All libraries were processed for quality control using the DNA 1000 Bioanalyzer (Agilent) and Qubit (Life Technologies) to validate and quantify library construction before preparing a paired-end flow cell. The samples were randomly divided among flow cells to minimize sequencing bias. Clonal bridge amplification (Illumina) was performed using a cBot (Illumina); 2× 250-base pair (bp) sequencing-by-synthesis was performed using the Illumina MiSeq platform.
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