A PCR primer design method for identifying spider mite species using k-mer counting

• Tomoko Matsuda ,

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

  * E-mail: tomokom@nbiodata.com

  Affiliation Research and Development Department, Nihon BioData Corporation, Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4709-4302

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• Hironori Sakamoto,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Takumi Kayukawa,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Institute of Agrobiological Sciences, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Yasuki Kitashima,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Toshinori Kozaki,

  Roles Investigation, Resources

  Affiliation Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Tetsuo Gotoh

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

  Affiliations Faculty of Agriculture, Ibaraki University, Ami, Ibaraki, Japan, Faculty of Economics, Ryutsu Keizai University, Ryugasaki, Ibaraki, Japan

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