title: microbial inventory of guts of stranded whale calves
design: We conducted high throughput sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene from gut contents of stranded Southern right whale calves (Eubalaena australis). Total DNA was extracted from gut contents or mucosa using a QIAamp DNA Stool Mini Kit. PCR and sequencing was conducted by Argonne National Lab. Overlapping reads have been joined prior to submission.