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NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION
Volume 1, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41559-016-0004
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- Natural History Museum of Denmark
- Danish National Research Foundation
- Maersk Oil Research and Technology Centre (MO-RTC) in Doha, Qatar
- Lundbeck Foundation [R109-2012-9995, R155-2013-16338, R24-2008-2527, R38-2008-3048, R70-2010-6286] Funding Source: researchfish
- Villum Fonden [00013151] Funding Source: researchfish
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Population genetics is essential for understanding and managing marine ecosystems, but sampling remains challenging. We demonstrate that high-throughput sequencing of seawater environmental DNA can provide useful estimates of genetic diversity in a whale shark (Rhincodontypus) aggregation. We recover similar mitochondrial haplotype frequencies in seawater compared to tissue samples, reliably placing the studied aggregation in a global genetic context and expanding the applications of environmental DNA to encompass population genetics of aquatic organisms.
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