Random sampling causes the low reproducibility of rare eukaryotic OTUs in Illumina COI metabarcoding
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DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3006
Abstract: DNA metabarcoding, the PCR-based profiling of natural communities, is becoming the method of choice for biodiversity monitoring because it circumvents some of the limitations inherent to traditional ecological surveys. However, potential sources of bias that… read more here.
Keywords: sample; rare otus; otus; reproducibility ... See more keywords