Metabarcoding and mitochondrial metagenomics of endogean arthropods to unveil the mesofauna of the soil

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1071-1081

  Arribas, Paula ^a,b   Andújar, Carmelo ^a,b   Hopkins, Kevin ^a   Shepherd, Matthew ^c   Vogler, Alfried P ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c NATURAL ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acari; biomonitoring; Collembola; community structure; deep soil; high throughput sequencing; mesofauna extraction; metagenome skimming; phylodiversity; soil biodiversity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84963655955     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12557     Document Type: Article

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