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A Highly Scalable Approach to Perform Ecological Surveys of Selfing Caenorhabditis Nematodes
Published on: March 1, 2022
Are we ready to detect nematode diversity by next generation sequencing?
Thomas Peham1, Florian M Steiner1, Birgit C Schlick-Steiner1
1Molecular Ecology GroupInstitute of Ecology University of Innsbruck Innsbruck Austria.
Abstract:
In a Technical Advance article, Porazinska et al. (2009, Molecular Ecology Resources, 9, 1439-1450) assessed next generation sequencing (NGS) as a method for metagenomic analysis of nematode diversity. We agree that NGS has great potential here. However, it is not an easy path to the successful implementation of NGS for environmental DNA analysis of nematodes. Here, we describe the method's limitations and discuss prospective research questions. For instance, only a few direct extraction kits are suitable for nematode DNA extraction from bulk samples without adaptation. They enable the analysis of extracellular nematode DNA. The most crucial and unresolved issue remains the limited availability of suitable primers.
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