A critique of Rossberg et al. : noise obscures the genetic signal of meiobiotal ecospecies in ecogenomic datasets
Author(s) -
Matthew J. Morgan,
David Bass,
Holly M. Bik,
C. William Birky,
Mark Blaxter,
Michael D. Crisp,
Sofie Derycke,
David Fitch,
Diego Fontaneto,
Christopher M. Hardy,
Andrew J. King,
Karin Kiontke,
Tom Moens,
Jan Pawłowski,
Dorota L. Porazinska,
Cuong Q. Tang,
W. Kelley Thomas,
David K. Yeates,
Simon Creer
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society b biological sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1471-2954
pISSN - 0962-8452
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.2013.3076
Subject(s) - biodiversity , biology , evolutionary biology , environmental dna , ecology , noise (video) , computational biology , computer science , artificial intelligence , image (mathematics)
High-throughput sequencing of DNA marker genes recovered from environmental samples (known as ecogenomics or metabarcoding) is an emerging tool for understanding patterns and processes in ecology and biodiversity [[1][1]]. The recent paper ‘Are there species smaller than 1 mm?’ [[2][2]] was
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