Harnessing the power of eDNA metabarcoding for the detection of deep-sea fishes

• Beverly McClenaghan,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2804-7906

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• Nicole Fahner,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

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• David Cote,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Centre, St. John’s, NL, Canada

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• Julek Chawarski,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Fisheries Ecosystem Research, Fisheries & Marine Institute, Memorial University of Newfoundland, NL, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5107-2037

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• Avery McCarthy,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

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• Hoda Rajabi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

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• Greg Singer,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada

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• Mehrdad Hajibabaei

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hajibabaei@gmail.com

  Affiliations Centre for Environmental Genomics Applications, eDNAtec Inc., St. John’s, NL, Canada, Centre for Biodiversity Genomics & Department of Integrative Biology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada

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