design: Longitudinal 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing of fecal samples from male Wistar rats fed a control or Western-style diet and treated with vehicle or heat-killed Mycobacterium vaccae NCTC 11869
library_construction_protocol: Microbial DNA was extracted from fecal samples, the V3-V4 region of the 16S rRNA gene was amplified using primers 341F and 805R, amplicons were indexed, pooled, and sequenced on an Illumina MiSeq platform