PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - James JN Kitson AU - Christoph Hahn AU - Richard J Sands AU - Nigel A Straw AU - Darren M Evans AU - David H Lunt TI - Nested metabarcode tagging: a robust tool for studying species interactions in ecology and evolution AID - 10.1101/035071 DP - 2015 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 035071 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/12/23/035071.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2015/12/23/035071.full AB - Here we present a next generation sequencing approach for use in ecological studies which allows for individual level sample tracking through the use of hierarchically organised molecular identification tags. We demonstrate its utility on a sample data set examining levels of parasitism in a recently arrived invasive species in the UK and discuss further possibilities for our approach in ecology and evolution.