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Molecular diet analysis of two african free-tailed bats (molossidae) using high throughput sequencing.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2011
Bohmann Kristine, Monadjem Ara, Lehmkuhl Noer Christina, Rasmussen Morten, Zeale Matt R K, Clare Elizabeth, Jones Gareth, Willerslev Eske, Gilbert M Thomas P
Abstract excerpt
Given the diversity of prey consumed by insectivorous bats, it is difficult to discern the composition of their diet using morphological or conventional PCR-based analyses of their faeces. We demonstrate the use of a powerful alternate tool, the use of the Roche FLX sequencing platform to deep-sequence uniquely 5' tagged insect-generic barcode cytochrome c oxidase I (COI) fragments, that were PCR amplified from...
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