Metabarcoding vs. morphological identification to assess diatom diversity in environmental studies

Molecular Ecology Resources

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 526-542

  Zimmermann, Jonas ^a,b   Glöckner, Gernot ^c,d   Jahn, Regine ^b   Enke, Neela ^b   Gemeinholzer, Birgit ^a  

^a JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^d LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF FRESHWATER ECOLOGY AND INLAND FISHERIES   (Germany)

Author keywords

Diatoms; DNA based specimen identification; Environmental DNA barcoding; Next generation sequencing; Water monitoring

Indexed keywords

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

FRESH WATER;

ALGORITHM; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; DIATOM; DNA BARCODING; DNA SEQUENCE; EVALUATION STUDY; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROCEDURES; RIVER; STANDARDS; WATER QUALITY; WORKFLOW;

ALGORITHMS; BIODIVERSITY; CYTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; DIATOMS; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; FRESH WATER; GENETIC VARIATION; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RIVERS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; WATER QUALITY; WORKFLOW;

EID: 84926489960     PISSN: 1755098X     EISSN: 17550998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1755-0998.12336     Document Type: Article

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