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PLOS ONE
Volume 9, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0110769
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- JSPS KAKENHI [24780044, 24659190, 26460510, 26292178]
- Project of Establishing Medical Research Base Networks against Infectious Diseases in Okinawa [CBB13001]
- Integrated Research Project for Human and Veterinary Medicine of the University of Miyazaki
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [24780044, 24659190, 221S0002, 26292178, 13J09930] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Parasite diversity has important implications in several research fields including ecology, evolutionary biology and epidemiology. Wide-ranging analysis has been restricted because of the difficult, highly specialised and time-consuming processes involved in parasite identification. In this study, we assessed parasite diversity in wild rats using 18S rDNA-based metagenomics. 18S rDNA PCR products were sequenced using an Illumina MiSeq sequencer and the analysis of the sequences using the QIIME software successfully classified them into several parasite groups. The comparison of the results with those obtained using standard methods including microscopic observation of helminth parasites in the rat intestines and PCR amplification/sequencing of 18S rDNA from isolated single worms suggests that this new technique is reliable and useful to investigate parasite diversity.
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