Environmental DNA metabarcoding of lake fish communities reflects long-term data from established survey methods

Molecular Ecology

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 3101-3119

  Hänfling, Bernd ^a   Handley, Lori Lawson ^a   Read, Daniel S ^b   Hahn, Christoph ^a   Li, Jianlong ^a   Nichols, Paul ^a   Blackman, Rosetta C ^a   Oliver, Anna ^b   Winfield, Ian J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ECOLOGY AND HYDROLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

EC water framework directive; EDNA; Environmental DNA; Fish monitoring; Lakes; Lentic systems; Metabarcoding

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME B; DNA;

ANIMAL; BIODIVERSITY; DNA BARCODING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; GENETICS; LAKE; PROCEDURES; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CYTOCHROMES B; DNA; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; LAKES; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84973137462     PISSN: 09621083     EISSN: 1365294X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/mec.13660     Document Type: Article

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