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Phylogenetic Authentication of Amplicon Sequence Variants in Single-Specimen Metabarcoding of Tropical Insects.
Molecular ecology resources - 1 Jul 2026
Ounjai Sarawut, Liu Huaxi, Zhou Zichen, Correia Maria Pestana, Creedy Thomas J, Andújar Carmelo, Arribas Paula, Vogler Alfried P
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High-throughput sequencing (HTS) allows large-scale DNA barcoding of individually tagged specimens ('megabarcoding'), but deep amplicon sequencing produces a mixture of authentic mitochondrial sequences together with nuclear pseudogenes (NUMTs), environmental and cross-sample contaminants, and sequencing artefacts. Standard approaches relying on read clustering or dominant-read selection often fail to classify...
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