PRJNA501910
Testing impacts of pre-extraction processing for invasive species detection
We tested the impacts of using intact vs. homogenized subsamples from a multi-species zooplankton sample to determine which method was more likely to detect rare taxa, those more likely to be newly arrived invasive species. We found that homogenization allowed for more rare OTU detection and more OTUs present in a single subsample, when compared to the results of multiple subsamples.