Diet Assessment Based on Rumen Contents: A Comparison between DNA Metabarcoding and Macroscopy.

Dietary choices are central to our understanding of ecology and evolution. Still, many aspects of food choice have been hampered by time consuming procedures and methodological problems. Faster and cheaper methods, such as DNA metabarcoding, have therefore been widely adopted. However, there is stil...

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Main Authors: Ruth V Nichols, Mikael Åkesson, Petter Kjellander
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4913902?pdf=render