title: Zooplankton microbiome and surrounding water
design: Amplicon libraries were prepared and sequencing was conducted by IGA Technology (Udine, Italy) using Illumina Nextera chemistry and a Miseq platform. Universal bacterial primers S-D-Bact-0341-b-S-17, 50-CCTACGGGNGGCWGCAG-30, and S-D-Bact-0785-a-A-21, 50-GACTACHVGGGTATCTAATCC-30 (Herlemann et al., 2011) with an amplicon size of 464bp were used.