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- Title
Teasing apart the dilution effect by combining DNA metabarcoding and statistical modelling.
- Authors
Levi, Taal; Massey, Aimee L.
- Abstract
Because identifying individually blood-fed sandflies under a dissecting microscope is extremely laborious, perhaps further advances in statistical modelling would make use of iDNA metabarcoding of sandfly pools rather than individual blood-fed vectors. Kocher et al. ([1]) additionally sequenced 855 individual blood-fed dipterans, 755 of which were sandflies (Figure 3), to link sandfly vector species with specific mammalian hosts. How changes in biodiversity affect disease, particularly in the face of large-scale land-use change, is a contentious topic in disease ecology that has implications for public health and conservation policy.
- Subjects
GENETIC barcoding; STATISTICAL models; DILUTION; BLOODSUCKING insects
- Publication
Molecular Ecology, 2023, Vol 32, Issue 8, p1814
- ISSN
0962-1083
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/mec.16906