Simultaneous Metabarcoding of Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes to Elucidate the Community Structures within Tardigrade Microhabitats
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Sample Collection
2.2. DNA Extraction and PCR Amplification
2.3. Sequencing and Analysis
2.4. Statistics
2.5. Data Availability
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Arakawa, K. Simultaneous Metabarcoding of Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes to Elucidate the Community Structures within Tardigrade Microhabitats. Diversity 2020, 12, 110. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12030110
Arakawa K. Simultaneous Metabarcoding of Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes to Elucidate the Community Structures within Tardigrade Microhabitats. Diversity. 2020; 12(3):110. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12030110
Chicago/Turabian StyleArakawa, Kazuharu. 2020. "Simultaneous Metabarcoding of Eukaryotes and Prokaryotes to Elucidate the Community Structures within Tardigrade Microhabitats" Diversity 12, no. 3: 110. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12030110