Coccolithophore genetic diversity and contribution to particulate inorganic carbon production in Western North American coastal waters
The goal is to assess the relative abundance of Gephyrocapsa huxleyi haplotypes targeting the mitochondrial cox3 gene in the U.S. West Coast. Water samples were taken on the NOAA WCOA'21 cruise from surface and chlorophyll maximum depth and analyzed using Next-Generation Sequencing eDNA techniques.