Evaluating the Ribosomal Internal Transcribed Spacer (ITS) as a Candidate Dinoflagellate Barcode Marker
Figure 1
Proportion of successfully barcoded strains in our dataset for selected taxa.
Numbers on X-axis are percentages. Gym/Gyr denote strains called Gymnodinium or Gyrodinium. 335 sequences failed at the amplification step (65%), 132 failed at the sequence stage whilst 47 (8%) failed due to the presence of paralogues or contaminants. The Pfiesteriaceae and Alexandrium taxa were proportionately worse at amplification compared to other genera.