Lakshadweep Macrobenthic fauna Metagenome
To study the macrobenthic faunal diversity from Lakshadweep coral reefs, sediment samples were collected using Van-veen grab of mouth area 0.04m2 diversity, samples were washed through a 500 micron mesh sieve with copious amount of seawater. After sieving, the macrobenthic organisms were carefully separated and transferred to a storage vial and preserved it in 96 percentage ethanol for DNA extraction and sequenced for 18S rRNA and COI metabarcoding.