A DNA metabarcoding approach for recovering plankton communities from archived samples fixed in formalin

• Takuhei Shiozaki ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takuhei Shiozaki, Fumihiro Itoh

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: shiozaki@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

  Affiliations Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, The University of Tokyo, Kashiwa, Japan, Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5160-3472

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• Fumihiro Itoh ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Takuhei Shiozaki, Fumihiro Itoh

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology

  Current address: Phytopetrum.Inc, Uruma, Japan

  Affiliation Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan

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• Yuu Hirose,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Applied Chemistry and Life Science, Toyohashi University of Technology, Toyohashi, Japan

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• Jonaotaro Onodera,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan

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• Akira Kuwata,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Shiogama field station, Fisheries Resources Institute, Japan Fisheries Research and Education Agency, Shiogama, Japan

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• Naomi Harada

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

  Affiliation Research Institute for Global Change, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology, Yokosuka, Japan

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