Illumina HiSeq 2000 sequencing of SAMD00055836
Pairs of reads from the original DNA fragments are merged by using FLASH-a very fast and accurate software tool which is designed to merge pairs of reads when the original DNA fragments are shorter than twice the length of reads. Sequencing reads was assigned to each sample according to the unique barcode of each sample. Sequences were analyzed with the QIIME software package  and UPARSE pipeline, in addition to custom Perl scripts to analyze alpha (within sample) and beta (between sample) diversity.