No guts, no glory: Gut content metabarcoding unveils the diet of a flower‐associated coastal sage scrub predator
Abstract Invertebrate generalist predators are ubiquitous and play a major role in food‐web dynamics. Molecular gut content analysis (MGCA) has become a popular means to assess prey ranges and specificity of cryptic arthropods in the absence of direct observation. While this approach has been widely...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2019-05-01
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Series: | Ecosphere |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.2712 |