Barcoding Bamboozled by Bacteria: Convergence to Metazoan Mitochondrial Primer Targets by Marine Microbes

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MARK E. SIDDALL1∗, FRANK M. FONTANELLA2, SARA C. WATSON1, SEBASTIAN KVIST3, AND CHRISTER ERSEUS4 1 Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA; 2 The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, USA; 3 Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA; 4 Department of Zoology, University of Gothenburg, Goteborg, Sweden; ∗Correspondence to be sent to: Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA; E-mail: [e-mail].