eDNA North Sea Targeted loci environmental
In this study, we evaluated how well DNA metabarcoding of environmental samples captures changes in marine plankton community composition to optimize the use of sequencing data for studying seasonal dynamics in future studies. We identified plankton from filtered water samples, taken in the Belgian Part of the North Sea over the course of one year, based on a 650 bp fragment of the V4-V5 region of the 18S rRNA gene using nanopore sequencing.