Not all are free-living: High-throughput DNA metabarcoding reveals a diverse community of protists parasitizing soil metazoa

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 24, Issue 17, 2015, Pages 4556-4569

  Geisen, S ^a,b   Laros, I ^c   Vizcaino A ^d   Bonkowski, M ^b   De Groot, G A ^c  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d Ed de Servicios Centrales de Investigaciõn   (Spain)

Author keywords

454 Metabarcoding; apicomplexa; high throughput sequencing; potential parasites; soil metazoan parasites; soil protists

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; APICOMPLEXA; CILIOPHORA; EUKARYOTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES); METAZOA; PROTISTA;

SOIL;

AMOEBA (LIFE CYCLE STAGE); BIODIVERSITY; CERCOZOA; CILIATE; DNA BARCODING; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; KINETOPLASTIDA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SOIL;

AMOEBA; BIODIVERSITY; CERCOZOA; CILIOPHORA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ECOSYSTEM; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; KINETOPLASTIDA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; SOIL;

EID: 84940450131     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13238     Document Type: Article

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