Developing methods for diet DNA metabarcoding: do we need to worry about surface contamination?
Recent lab PhD recipient Ana Miller-ter Kuile collaborated with EEMB graduate student Austen Apigo and Dr. Young to explore whether surface contamination alters diet DNA metabarcoding results from small-bodied invertebrates on Palmyra Atoll.
August 13, 2021

A Heteropoda venatoria spider eats a gecko (Lepidodactylus sp) on Palmyra Atoll. Photo by Katherine Plummer.
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