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Widespread Torix Rickettsia in New Zealand amphipods and the use of blocking primers to rescue host COI sequences.
Scientific reports - 8 Oct 2020
Park Eunji, Poulin Robert
Abstract excerpt
Endosymbionts and intracellular parasites are common in arthropod hosts. As a consequence, (co)amplification of untargeted bacterial sequences has been occasionally reported as a common problem in DNA barcoding. While identifying amphipod species with universal COI primers, we unexpectedly detected rickettsial endosymbionts belonging to the Torix group. To map the distribution and diversity of Rickettsia species...
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