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Analysing diet of small herbivores: the efficiency of DNA barcoding coupled with high-throughput pyrosequencing for deciphering the composition of complex plant mixtures

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Zoology, August 2009
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1 news outlet
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1 blog
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9 patents
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6 Wikipedia pages

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Title
Analysing diet of small herbivores: the efficiency of DNA barcoding coupled with high-throughput pyrosequencing for deciphering the composition of complex plant mixtures
Published in
Frontiers in Zoology, August 2009
DOI 10.1186/1742-9994-6-16
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Authors

Eeva M Soininen, Alice Valentini, Eric Coissac, Christian Miquel, Ludovic Gielly, Christian Brochmann, Anne K Brysting, Jørn H Sønstebø, Rolf A Ims, Nigel G Yoccoz, Pierre Taberlet

Abstract

In order to understand the role of herbivores in trophic webs, it is essential to know what they feed on. Diet analysis is, however, a challenge in many small herbivores with a secretive life style. In this paper, we compare novel (high-throughput pyrosequencing) DNA barcoding technology for plant mixture with traditional microhistological method. We analysed stomach contents of two ecologically important subarctic vole species, Microtus oeconomus and Myodes rufocanus, with the two methods. DNA barcoding was conducted using the P6-loop of the chloroplast trnL (UAA) intron.

Mendeley readers

Mendeley readers

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 11 2%
Germany 4 <1%
Spain 4 <1%
United Kingdom 3 <1%
Netherlands 2 <1%
China 2 <1%
Canada 2 <1%
Australia 2 <1%
France 1 <1%
Other 13 3%
Unknown 450 91%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 112 23%
Researcher 109 22%
Student > Master 67 14%
Student > Bachelor 47 10%
Student > Doctoral Student 20 4%
Other 81 16%
Unknown 58 12%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 277 56%
Environmental Science 62 13%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 41 8%
Medicine and Dentistry 8 2%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 5 1%
Other 25 5%
Unknown 76 15%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 January 2024.
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#1,629,355
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Outputs from Frontiers in Zoology
#95
of 695 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#5,112
of 118,623 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Zoology
#1
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