Divergence thresholds and divergent biodiversity estimates: Can metabarcoding reliably describe zooplankton communities?

Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 2234-2251

  Brown, Emily A ^a,b   Chain, Frédéric J J ^a   Crease, Teresa J ^c   Macisaac, Hugh J ^b   Cristescu, Melania E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

nSSU; Biodiversity; High throughput sequencing; Metabarcoding; Mock community; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

METAZOA; OTUS;

EID: 84930383955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20457758     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ece3.1485     Document Type: Article

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