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SPIKEPIPE: A metagenomic pipeline for the accurate quantification of eukaryotic species occurrences and intraspecific abundance change using DNA barcodes or mitogenomes

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Ji, Yinqiu et al. (2019). SPIKEPIPE: A metagenomic pipeline for the accurate quantification of eukaryotic species occurrences and intraspecific abundance change using DNA barcodes or mitogenomes [Dataset]. Dryad. https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.r105t1f

Abstract

The accurate quantification of eukaryotic species abundances from bulk samples remains a key challenge for community ecology and environmental biomonitoring. We resolve this challenge by combining shotgun sequencing, mapping to reference DNA barcodes or to mitogenomes, and three correction factors: (a) a percent‐coverage threshold to filter out false positives, (b) an internal‐standard DNA spike‐in to correct for stochasticity during sequencing, and (c) technical replicates to correct for stochasticity across sequencing runs. The SPIKEPIPE pipeline achieves a strikingly high accuracy of intraspecific abundance estimates (in terms of DNA mass) from samples of known composition (mapping to barcodes R2 = .93, mitogenomes R2 = .95) and a high repeatability across environmental‐sample replicates (barcodes R2 = .94, mitogenomes R2 = .93). As proof of concept, we sequence arthropod samples from the High Arctic, systematically collected over 17 years, detecting changes in species richness, species‐specific abundances, and phenology. SPIKEPIPE provides cost‐efficient and reliable quantification of eukaryotic communities.

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Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Award: 31400470

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Award: 31500305

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Award: 31670536

National Natural Science Foundation of China, Award: 41661144002

Academy of Finland, Award: 276909

Academy of Finland, Award: 284601

Academy of Finland, Award: 285803

Academy of Finland, Award: 309571

Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation

Environmental Protection Agency

University of East Anglia

Location

Arctic
Greenland