A universal set of primers to study animal associated microeukaryotic communities
J. del Campo, M. J. Pons, M. Herranz, K. C. Wakeman, J. del Valle, M. J. Vermeij, P. J. Keeling
The paper validates contrametazoan primers for 18S rRNA metabarcoding to specifically study animal-associated microeukaryotes, showing they reduce host contamination compared to universal primers.
bioRxiv · Dec 4, 2018Microbiology