Brian W. Bowen

Surveying Biodiverse Coral Reef Ecosystems Across the Tree of Life With Environmental DNA

ABSTRACT A central challenge in evaluating biodiversity using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is that each primer set has biases resulting in selective amplification of taxonomic diversity. Here we test 11 primer pairs to assess Central Pacific coral reef diversity in the five kingdoms of marine eukaryotes: Chro...