16S rRNA gene microbial sequences from Zucker Rat ID 49 Control ShortTerm.
Total microbial DNA was collected directly from the fecal samples using a PowerSoil DNA isolation kit (QIAGEN, Germantown, MD). Isolated DNA was used for amplifying the V4 region of 16S rRNA gene as per Kozich et al. (2013) Data was collected using the Illumina NextSeq 2000.