The effect of DNA degradation bias in passive sampling devices on metabarcoding studies of arthropod communities and their associated microbiota

• Henrik Krehenwinkel ,

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

  * E-mail: Krehenwinkel@berkeley.edu

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Center for Comparative Genomics, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5069-8601

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• Marisa Fong,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Susan Kennedy,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Edward Greg Huang,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Suzuki Noriyuki,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Center for Geo-Environmental Science, Rissho University, Saitama, Japan

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• Luis Cayetano,

  Roles Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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• Rosemary Gillespie

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management, University of California, Mulford Hall, Berkeley, California, United States of America

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