A DNA library was prepared using the DNA Template Prep kit 2.0 (Pacific Biosciences) according to the manufacturer's instructions. Sequencing was performed with the PacBio RS II system using the DNA Sequencing Kit C2 (Pacific Biosciences) with P4 polymerase. Circular Consensus Sequence (CCS) constructed from more than eight full-pass subreads were produced using PacBio SMRT Analysis, and then primer sequences were removed using the FASTX-Toolkit (http://bbmap.sourceforge.net/). For fungal analyses, 2202 reads in average in 1 sample were generated. Sequences were clustered into OTUs, defined at 95% similarity using UCLUST version 1.2.22q (http://sco.h-its.org/exelixis/web/software/pear/). Representative sequences for each OTU were classified taxonomically using RDP Classifier version 2.2 with the ntF-ITS1 database.16 (link) The Mann–Whitney U test and the Fisher’s probability test were used to compare the relative abundance and detection ratio for statistical analyses, respectively.
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