Ayla Murray

On the effectiveness of two universal metabarcoding primer pairs in amplifying Arctic gelatinous zooplankton DNA from tissue and environmental samples

Gelatinous zooplankton (GZP) comprise a highly diverse group of marine taxa that play key ecological roles throughout the world’s oceans. However, their fragile bodies make them difficult to effectively study using traditional sampling methods such as net and optical surveys. While the recent advancements of non-inva...