Detecting In Situ Copepod Diet Diversity Using Molecular Technique: Development of a Copepod/Symbiotic Ciliate-Excluding Eukaryote-Inclusive PCR Protocol

• Simin Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Simin Hu, Zhiling Guo

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Zhiling Guo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Simin Hu, Zhiling Guo

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

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• Tao Li,

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, Tropical Marine Biological Research Station in Hainan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China

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• Edward J. Carpenter,

  Affiliation Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, United States of America

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• Sheng Liu ,

  * E-mail: shliu@scsio.ac.cn (SL); senjie.lin@uconn.edu (SJL)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Tropical Marine Bio-resources and Ecology, South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China

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• Senjie Lin

  * E-mail: shliu@scsio.ac.cn (SL); senjie.lin@uconn.edu (SJL)

  Affiliations Marine Biodiversity and Global Change Research Center, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut, Groton, Connecticut, United States of America

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