Metabarcoding versus mapping unassembled shotgun reads for identification of prey consumed by arthropod epigeal predators.
Débora Pires PaulaSuellen Karina Albertoni BarrosRafael Major PittaMarliton Rocha BarretoRoberto Coiti TogawaDavid A AndowPublished in: GigaScience (2022)
Metabarcoding and Lazaro had similar, but partially complementary, detection of prey in arthropod predator guts. However, while Lazaro was almost 2× more expensive, the number of reads was related to the amount of prey DNA, suggesting that Lazaro may provide quantitative prey information while metabarcoding did not.