Assigning the unassigned: A signature-based classification of rDNA metabarcodes reveals new deep-sea diversity

• Inès Barrenechea Angeles ,

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

  * E-mail: ines.a.angeles@uit.no (IBA); janpawlowski@iopan.pl (JP)

  Affiliations Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, Department of Geosciences, UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8051-4110

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• Ngoc-Loi Nguyen,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9452-4830

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• Mattia Greco,

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

  Affiliations Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, Institute of Marine Sciences, Spanish National Research Council, Barcelona, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2416-6235

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• Koh Siang Tan,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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• Jan Pawlowski

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

  * E-mail: ines.a.angeles@uit.no (IBA); janpawlowski@iopan.pl (JP)

  Affiliations Institute of Oceanology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland, ID-Gene Ecodiagnostics Ltd., Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland

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