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Two short diatom rbcL barcodes, 331 bp and 263 bp in length, have frequently been used in diatom metabarcoding studies. They overlap in a common 263-bp region but differ in the presence or absence of a 68-bp tail at the 5′ end. Though the effectiveness of both has been demonstrated in separate biomonitoring and diversity studies, the impact of the 68-bp non-shared region has not been evaluated. Here we compare the two barcodes in terms of the values of a biotic index (IPS) and the ecological status classes derived from their application to an extensive metabarcoding dataset from United Kingdom rivers; this comprised 1703 samples and was produced using the 331-bp primers. In addition, we assess the effectiveness of each barcode for discrimination of genetic variants around and below the species level. The strong correlation found in IPS values between barcodes (Pearson's R = 0.98) indicates that the choice of the barcode does not have major implications for current WFD ecological assessments, although a very few sites (55: 3.23% of those analysed) were downgraded from an acceptable WFD class (“Good”) to an unacceptable one (“Moderate”). Analyses of the taxonomic resolution of the tw

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Author

Javier Pérez-Burillo; David G. Mann; Rosa Trobajo

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2022

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)