# Reference-databases Metabarpark
Reference databases in fasta format for Eukaryotic metabarcoding

We are working on DNA-metabarcoding of marine benthic communities.
This is a collection of Reference databases useful for taxonomic assignment of Eukaryotic sequences.

Citations:
If you use these reference databases please cite:
Wangensteen OS, Turon X (2016) Metabarcoding techniques for assessing biodiversity of marine animal forests. Marine Animal Forests. The Ecology of Benthic Biodiversity Hotspots, eds Rossi S, Bramanti L, Gori A, Orejas C (Springer International Publishing).

If you use the reference database for COI elasmobranch sequences using Fields et al. (2015) primers, please cite:
Bakker et al. (2017) (in preparation).