Metagenome from oral swab of South polar skua
Oral swab was stored in UTM buffer. 200ul of the supernatant was used for total RNA extraction using High Pure Viral Nucleic Acid kit. 2 ul of the using the QIAwave RNA plus mini kit. The RNA was used to prepare Illumina library using the Illumina Stranded Total RNA Prep with Ribo-Zero Plus Microbiome kit (Illumina, USA) This was sequenced at Psomagen Inc (USA) on an Illumina NovaseqX.