Who is eating what: Diet assessment using next generation sequencing

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 21, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1931-1950

  Pompanon, Francois ^a   Deagle, Bruce E ^b,c   Symondson, William O C ^d   Brown, David S ^d   Jarman, Simon N ^b   Taberlet, Pierre ^a  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^d CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DNA barcoding; DNA metabarcoding; faeces; food webs; herbivory; predation

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ANIMAL; DIET; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES; FOOD CHAIN; GENETICS; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; DIET; DNA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FECES; FOOD CHAIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84859602598     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294X.2011.05403.x     Document Type: Review

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