Metabarcoding reveals hidden species and improves identification of marine zooplankton communities in the North Sea
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- Ilias Semmouri (UGent) , Karel De Schamphelaere (UGent) , Stijn Willemse, Michiel Vandegehuchte, Colin Janssen (UGent) and Jana Asselman (UGent)
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- Although easily collected in large numbers, the subsequent processing and identification of zooplankton have usually been a barrier to largescale biodiversity assessments. Therefore, DNA barcoding has been increasingly used by non-taxonomists to identify specimens. Here, we studied the community composition of zooplankton in the Belgian part of the North Sea over the course of 1 year. We identified zooplankton using both a traditional approach based on morphological characteristics and by metabarcoding of a 650 bp fragment of the V4-V5 region of the 18S rRNA gene using nanopore sequencing. Using long rDNA sequences, we were able to identify several taxa at the species level, across a broad taxonomic scale. Using both methods, we compared community composition and obtained diversity metrics. Diversity indices were not significantly correlated. Metabarcoding allowed for comparisons of diversity and community composition, but not all groups were successfully sequenced. Additionally, some disparities existed between relative abundances of the most abundant taxa based on traditional counts and those based on sequence reads. Overall, we conclude that for zooplankton samples, metabarcoding is capable of detecting taxa with a higher resolution, regardless of developmental stage of the organism. Combination of molecular and morphological methods results in the highest detection and identification levels of zooplankton.
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- Ecology, Aquatic Science, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Oceanography, 18S barcode, biomonitoring, copepods, MinIon, nanopore sequencing, Temora longicornis, BELGIAN PART, BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT, COPY NUMBER, R-PACKAGE, DNA, DIVERSITY, CRUSTACEA, TIME, CONSERVATION, DIVERGENCE
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8696556
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- Semmouri, Ilias, et al. “Metabarcoding Reveals Hidden Species and Improves Identification of Marine Zooplankton Communities in the North Sea.” ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE, vol. 78, no. 9, 2021, pp. 3411–27, doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsaa256.
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- Semmouri, I., De Schamphelaere, K., Willemse, S., Vandegehuchte, M., Janssen, C., & Asselman, J. (2021). Metabarcoding reveals hidden species and improves identification of marine zooplankton communities in the North Sea. ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE, 78(9), 3411–3427. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa256
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- Semmouri, Ilias, Karel De Schamphelaere, Stijn Willemse, Michiel Vandegehuchte, Colin Janssen, and Jana Asselman. 2021. “Metabarcoding Reveals Hidden Species and Improves Identification of Marine Zooplankton Communities in the North Sea.” ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE 78 (9): 3411–27. https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsaa256.
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- Semmouri, Ilias, Karel De Schamphelaere, Stijn Willemse, Michiel Vandegehuchte, Colin Janssen, and Jana Asselman. 2021. “Metabarcoding Reveals Hidden Species and Improves Identification of Marine Zooplankton Communities in the North Sea.” ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE 78 (9): 3411–3427. doi:10.1093/icesjms/fsaa256.
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- 1.Semmouri I, De Schamphelaere K, Willemse S, Vandegehuchte M, Janssen C, Asselman J. Metabarcoding reveals hidden species and improves identification of marine zooplankton communities in the North Sea. ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE. 2021;78(9):3411–27.
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- [1]I. Semmouri, K. De Schamphelaere, S. Willemse, M. Vandegehuchte, C. Janssen, and J. Asselman, “Metabarcoding reveals hidden species and improves identification of marine zooplankton communities in the North Sea,” ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE, vol. 78, no. 9, pp. 3411–3427, 2021.
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