Establishing insect community composition using metabarcoding of soil samples, and preservative ethanol and homogenate from Malaise trap catches: surprising inconsistencies between methods.
D. Marquina, R. Esparza-Salas, T. Roslin, F. Ronquist
This study compares DNA metabarcoding methods for insect communities, finding inconsistencies between COI and 16S markers and between sampling methods like ethanol and homogenate.
bioRxiv · Apr 2, 2019Ecology