Coming of age for COI metabarcoding of whole organism community DNA: Towards bioinformatic harmonisation.

ABSTRACT: Metabarcoding of DNA extracted from community samples of whole organisms (whole organism community DNA, wocDNA) is increasingly being applied to terrestrial, marine and freshwater metazoan communities to provide rapid, accurate and high resolution data for novel molecular ecology research. The growth of this field has been accompanied by considerable development that builds on microbial metabarcoding methods to develop appropriate and efficient sampling and laboratory protocols for whole organism metazoan communities. However, considerably less attention has focused on ensuring bioinformatic methods are adapted and applied comprehensively in wocDNA metabarcoding. In this study we examined over 600 papers and identified 111 studies that performed COI metabarcoding of wocDNA. We then systema

SUBMITTER: Creedy TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9292290 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature