DADA2 for Single-end sequences from .FASTQ

Yep, as I suspected — it is indeed that the Q-scores are all uniform (presumably in all sequences, not just the first few).

This is impossible — it indicates that the authors of the study most likely created artificial Q scores for the reads, possibly because the original quality scores were lost. You could contact them for the true Q scores/explanation.

So these data will not work with dada2. You could use deblur (which does not use Q scores) for denoising.

Good luck!