MetaCopepod

Title: Designing an integrated DNA metabarcoding and image analysis approach to study and monitor biodiversity of zooplanktonic copepods

Funding Source: NSRF Excellence

Budget IMBBC: 180,000€

Start / End Date: 2014 - 2015

Web site URL:

Project Progress: 100%

Principal Investigator:

Panagiotis Kasapidis

Project Members:

Research Directions:

Population genetics and phylogeography

Environmental genomics

Bioinformatics and biodiversity informatics

Description:

The aim of the 'MetaCopepod' project was to develop a novel methodology, based on the combination of next generation sequencing technologies and image analysis, to assess and monitor the biodiversity of marine zooplanktonic copepods (and cladocera), in a fast, high-throughput, reliable and quantitative way.