Development and evaluation of PCR primers for environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding of Amphibia

Masayuki K. Sakata; Mone U. Kawata; Atsushi Kurabayashi; Takaki Kurita; Masatoshi Nakamura; Tomoyasu Shirako; Ryosuke Kakehashi; Kanto Nishikawa; Mohamad Yazid Hossman; Takashi Nishijima; Junichi Kabamoto; Masaki Miya; Toshifumi Minamoto

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Metabarcoding and Metagenomics 6: e76534
https://doi.org/10.3897/mbmg.6.76534 (21 Feb 2022)

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