Abstract
We developed an inexpensive methylation-based capture method for enriching host DNA from noninvasively obtained fecal samples. We demonstrate that the enrichment is robust, efficient, and compatible with downstream library preparation methods, including complexity-reduction approaches for massively parallel sequencing. Because feces are widely available and convenient to collect, our method empowers researchers to explore genomic-scale population-level questions in organisms for which invasive sampling is challenging or undesirable.
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Posted November 25, 2015.
FecalSeq: methylation-based enrichment for noninvasive population genomics from feces
