Coral eDNA project. seawater metagenome

The foundation of coral reefs, the most biodiverse area on Earth, are formed by anthozoan cnidarians, scleractinian corals. Recently however, ongoing climate change has significantly affected scleractinian corals and coral reef environments are dramatically changing. Thus, frequent and high-density monitoring of scleractinian corals is essential to understand changing coral reef communities, and environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding would be one of the most effective for archiving it.