Metabarcoding analysis on European coastal samples reveals new molecular metazoan diversity.

ABSTRACT: Although animals are among the best studied organisms, we still lack a full description of their diversity, especially for microscopic taxa. This is partly due to the time-consuming and costly nature of surveying animal diversity through morphological and molecular studies of individual taxa. A powerful alternative is the use of high-throughput environmental sequencing, providing molecular data from all organisms sampled. We here address the unknown diversity of animal phyla in marine environments using an extensive dataset designed to assess eukaryotic ribosomal diversity among European coastal locations. A multi-phylum assessment of marine animal diversity that includes water column and sediments, oxic and anoxic environments, and both DNA and RNA templates, revealed a high percentage of

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Escardo D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6002407 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature