Welcome to the METABARPARK Project website. The project aims to apply the new high throughput sequencing technologies to characterize benthic communities in the Spanish Marine National Parks using environmental DNA (metabarcoding). Our main objective is to characterize the hidden biodiversity which is usually overlooked by traditional methods. We will also try to assess the community impacts of invasive seaweeds.

Monday, October 15, 2018

Metabarpark comes to an end


Dear followers of the Metabarpark project, please be aware that the project ended officially in November 2017. We have waited to make this post so that some papers with results could appear and a new project is up and running.

We are proud of the success of the Metabarpark project. We could develop novel metabarcoding methods for the assessment of benthic communities on hard substrata. These methods were applied to representative communities of the two National Parks studied, and a bewildering biodiversity was uncovered. We also proved the adequacy of metabarcoding to detect the less evident impacts (on meio- and micro-organisms) of the presence of invasive seaweeds in sublittoral communities in both Parks.

We are happy to announce that our activity will continue in the framework of a new project funded by the Ministry of Science, the PopCOmics project. In this new project, we seek to continue the development of molecular tools as applied to ecological and conservation issues.

Thanks for having followed this project! Please bookmark the webpage of PopCOmics http://popcomicsproject.blogspot.com/ and watch out for interesting news.


The Metabarpark team
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