title: ITS
design: We performed a customized workflow for bioinformatic analyses, using VSEARCH v.2.7.1 (Rognes et al., 2016) and the databases Silva (for Bacteria) (Quast et al., 2012) and UNITE (for Fungi) (Nilsson et al., 2018), as well as customized scripts in Python that were applied for amplicon metagenomic analysis.