Insights into aphid prey consumption by ladybirds: Optimising field sampling methods and primer design for high throughput sequencing

• Lolita Ammann ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lolo.ammann@gmail.com

  Affiliation Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0766-8180

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• Rosemary Moorhouse-Gann,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust, Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5491-122X

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• Jordan Cuff,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0198-4940

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• Colette Bertrand,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland, UMR 1402 ECOSYS, INRA, AgroParisTech, Université Paris-Saclay, Versailles, France

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• Laia Mestre,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation iES Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany

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• Nicolás Pérez Hidalgo,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Biologia Integrativa de Sistemas (Centro Mixto Universidad de Valencia-CSIC) Valencia, Spain

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• Amy Ellison,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, United Kingdom

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• Felix Herzog,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland

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• Martin H. Entling,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation iES Landau, Institute for Environmental Sciences, University of Koblenz-Landau, Landau, Germany

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• Matthias Albrecht,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Agroecology and Environment, Agroscope, Zurich, Switzerland

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• William O. C. Symondson

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Cardiff School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

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