A pipeline for metabarcoding and diet analysis from fecal samples developed for a small semi-aquatic mammal.

Metabarcoding allows the genetic analysis of pooled samples of various sources. It is becoming popular in the study of animal diet, especially because it allows the analysis of the composition of feces without the need of handling animals. In this work, we studied the diet of the Pyrenean desman (Ga...

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Main Authors: Oliver Hawlitschek, Angel Fernández-González, Alfonso Balmori-de la Puente, Jose Castresana
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6091967?pdf=render