Metabarcoding of shrimp stomach content: Harnessing a natural sampler for fish biodiversity monitoring.

ABSTRACT: Given their positioning and biological productivity, estuaries have long represented key providers of ecosystem services and consequently remain under remarkable pressure from numerous forms of anthropogenic impact. The monitoring of fish communities in space and time is one of the most widespread and established approaches to assess the ecological status of estuaries and other coastal habitats, but traditional fish surveys are invasive, costly, labour intensive and highly selective. Recently, the application of metabarcoding techniques, on either sediment or aqueous environmental DNA, has rapidly gained popularity. Here, we evaluate the application of a novel, high-throughput DNA-based monitoring tool to assess fish diversity, based on the analysis of the gut contents of a generalist pred

SUBMITTER: Siegenthaler A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7379652 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature