Optimizing a metabarcoding primer portfolio for species-level detection of taxa in complex mixtures of diverse fishes
Diana S. Baetscher1,2*, Nicolas S. Locatelli1,3, Eugene Won4, Timothy Fitzgerald5, Peter B. McIntyre1, Nina Overgaard Therkildsen1
1Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2Current address: NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Auke Bay Laboratories, Juneau, AK
3Current address: Department of Biology, Penn State, University Park, PA
4Department of Animal Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
5Environmental Defense Fund, Washington, D.C.
*Corresponding author