DNA sequencing as a tool to monitor marine ecological status

Frontiers in Marine Science

Volumn 4, Issue MAY, 2017, Pages

  Goodwin, Kelly D ^a   Thompson, Luke R ^a,b   Duarte, Bernardo ^c   Kahlke, Tim ^d   Thompson, Andrew R ^e   Marques, João C ^f   Caçador, Isabel ^c  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Biodiversity and ecosystem function (BEF); eDNA; Good ecological status (GES); Marine biological quality element (BQE); Metabarcoding; Metagenetics; Metagenomics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85020132416     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22967745     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00107     Document Type: Review

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