Using Seawater to Document Coral-Zoothanthella Diversity: A New Approach to Coral Reef Monitoring Using Environmental DNA

Using Seawater to Document Coral-Zoothanthella Diversity: A New Approach to Coral Reef Monitoring Using Environmental DNA

Frequent, high-density coral monitoring is essential to understand coral reef ecosystems. For this purpose, we developed a novel method for simultaneous monitoring of Acropora corals and their symbiont, Symbiodinium, from environmental DNA (eDNA) in seawater using next generation sequencing technolo...

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Main Authors: Chuya Shinzato, Yuna Zayasu, Miyuki Kanda, Mayumi Kawamitsu, Noriyuki Satoh, Hiroshi Yamashita, Go Suzuki
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-02-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
scleractinian coral
Acropora
Symbiodinium
environmental DNA
illumina next-generation sequencing
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2018.00028/full

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