Large-Scale Biomonitoring of Remote and Threatened Ecosystems via High-Throughput Sequencing.

Biodiversity metrics are critical for assessment and monitoring of ecosystems threatened by anthropogenic stressors. Existing sorting and identification methods are too expensive and labour-intensive to be scaled up to meet management needs. Alternately, a high-throughput DNA sequencing approach cou...

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Main Authors: Joel F Gibson, Shadi Shokralla, Colin Curry, Donald J Baird, Wendy A Monk, Ian King, Mehrdad Hajibabaei
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4619546?pdf=render