Temporal dynamics of freshwater planktonic parasites inferred using a DNA metabarcoding time-series.

ABSTRACT: Parasites are important components of biodiversity and contributors to ecosystem functioning, but are often neglected in ecological studies. Most studies examine model parasite systems or single taxa, thus our understanding of community composition is lacking. Here, the seasonal and annual dynamics of parasites was quantified using a 5-year metabarcoding time-series of freshwater plankton, collected weekly. We first identified parasites in the dataset using literature searches of the taxonomic match and using sequence metadata from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) nucleotide database. In total, 441 amplicon sequence variants (belonging to 18 phyla/clades) were classified as parasites. The four phyla/clades with the highest relative read abundance and richness were C

SUBMITTER: Beng KC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8573423 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature