South African marine eDNA 2017
Seawater samples collected across the coastline of South Africa were selected to represent natural and anthropogenically impacted sites. Metabarcoding of the eDNA extracted from these samples was performed, targeting a section of the eukaryotic cytochrome c oxidase I gene (COI), a section of the V4 region of the eukaryotic nuclear small subunit ribosomal DNA (18S) and the V3-V4 hyper-variable region of prokaryotic small subunit ribosomal DNA (16S).