Can Theory Improve the Scope of Quantitative Metazoan Metabarcoding?

Using high-throughput sequencing approaches to quantify biodiversity has a number of hurdles, in particular that the number of reads for a given taxon may not be proportional to the number of individuals of that taxon in a sample. Here, we consider whether summary statistics generated in the course...

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Main Authors: John P. Wares, Paula Pappalardo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2015-12-01
Series:Diversity
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/8/1/1