High-Throughput Sequencing-The Key to Rapid Biodiversity Assessment of Marine Metazoa?: e0140342

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 10; no. 10
• Main Authors: Mohrbeck, Inga, Raupach, Michael J, Arbizu, Pedro Martinez, Knebelsberger, Thomas, Laakmann, Silke
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.10.2015
• Subjects: Metazoa; ANE, North Sea

The applications of traditional morphological and molecular methods for species identification are greatly restricted by processing speed and on a regional or greater scale are generally considered unfeasible. In this context, high-throughput sequencing, or metagenetics, has been proposed as an effi...