Validating a multi-locus metabarcoding approach for characterizing mixed-pollen samples.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The mutualistic interaction between entomophilous plants and pollinators is fundamental to the structure of most terrestrial ecosystems. The sensitive nature of this relationship has been disrupted by anthropogenic modifications to natural landscapes, warranting development of new methods for exploring this trophic interaction. Characterizing the composition of pollen collected by pollinators, e.g. Apis mellifera, is a common means of exploring this relationship, but traditional methods of microscopic pollen assessment are laborious and limited in their scope. The development of pollen metabarcoding as a method of rapidly characterizing the abundance and diversity of pollen within mixed samples presents a new frontier for this type of work, but metabarcoding may have lim

SUBMITTER: Wizenberg SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10625703 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature