Abstract:Despite the importance of early life-history stages to ecosystem processes, challenges in the identification of the larval stages of species continue to slow progress in understanding the dynamics of marine ecosystems. A quantitative polymerase chain reaction-based method was developed and tested for estimating the species-specific biomass of juvenile copepods through targeted measurements of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (mtCOI) gene copies in size-fractionated, mixed-species plankton samples. … Show more
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