Credit: Ayushi Kachhara NIWA 2018

Academic publication

Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals estuarine benthic community response to nutrient enrichment – Evidence from an in-situ experiment

Clark DE, Pilditch CA, Pearman JK, Ellis JI and Zaiko A (2020) Environmental Pollution, 267, 115472

Highlights

eDNA-derived communities (18S, rbcL, 16S) responded to nutrient enrichment.
Responses were sensitive to enrichment level, but varied between estuaries.
All communities show potential for development of molecular biomonitoring tools.

Keywords

Environmental monitoring, Bacteria 16S, Diatoms rbcL, Eukaryotes 18S, High-throughput sequencing

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