Shotgun-metagenomic sequencing of Onthophagus taurus pedestals
Pedestals (n=17) pooled and DNA extracted using Qiagen DNeasy PowerSoil Pro kit. DNA was then fractionated and size selected to ~300bp before being barcoded using the NEBNext Ultra II protocol. Finally, sample was pooled with other samples and run on a 300 cycle NextSeq 500 sequencer.