Unravel the hidden protistan diversity: application of blocking primers to suppress PCR amplification of metazoan DNA.

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Planktonic protists, including both autotroph and heterotroph, have been recognized as a major contributor to primary production and consumers of bacteria, archaea and picophytoplankton. However, the understanding of protistan diversity is typically impeded by the large amount of metazoans when employing universal primers to environmental samples. In this study, we developed 3 blocking primers to inhibit the...

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