Metabarcoding dietary analysis of coral dwelling predatory fish demonstrates the minor contribution of coralmutualists to their highly partitioned, generalist diet

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Volumn 2015, Issue 6, 2015, Pages

  Leray, Matthieu ^a,b,c   Meyer, Christopher P ^c   Mills, Suzanne C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PERPIGNAN   (France)

^b Laboratoire d'Excellence 'CORAIL'   (France)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

COI; Coral reefs; Exosymbionts; Food web; Interactions; Invertebrates; Mutualism; Pyrosequencing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CORAL; DNA BARCODING; FISH; GENE SEQUENCE; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREDATOR; PYROSEQUENCING; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 84944739850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1047     Document Type: Article

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