Bacterial and Fungal hypolythic communities in the Namib
The primer pair ITS1F-KYO1 and ITS2-KYO2  was used for the amplification of the ITS rRNA gene region. Amplicon products from each sample were pooled together in equal concentrations and were purified using Agencourt Ampure XP beads. The PCR product was then used to prepare a DNA library following the Illumina TruSeq DNA library preparation protocol.