title: gut metagenome of Siberian jay (Perisoreus infaustus)
design: DNA extractions and sequencing were performed at the McMaster Genomics Facility following a modified version of the protocol described in Stearns et al., 2015. Briefly, 2x300bp paired-end reads were generated from amplification of the V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene using 515F and 806R primers. Sequencing was performed on the Illumina MiSeq platform as described in (42) at the McMaster Metagenomics Facility (Hamilton, ON, Canada).