Description of a ‘plankton filtration bias’ in sequencing-based bacterial community analysis and of an Arduino microcontroller-based flowmeter device that can help to resolve it

• Corentin Fournier ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: Corentin.Fournier@uni-konstanz.de (CF); David.Schleheck@uni-konstanz.de (DS)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Microbial Ecology and Limnic Microbiology, Limnological Institute, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

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• Alexander Fiedler,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Current address: Department of Biotechnology and Food Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Gløshaugen, Norway

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Microbial Ecology and Limnic Microbiology, Limnological Institute, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

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• Maximilian Weidele,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Scientific Engineering and Manufacturing Services, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

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• Harald Kautz,

  Roles Software

  Affiliation Scientific Engineering and Manufacturing Services, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

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• David Schleheck

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

  * E-mail: Corentin.Fournier@uni-konstanz.de (CF); David.Schleheck@uni-konstanz.de (DS)

  Affiliation Department of Biology, Microbial Ecology and Limnic Microbiology, Limnological Institute, University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany

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