TABLE 8 in Comparing whole-genome shotgun sequencing and DNA metabarcoding approaches for species identification and quantification of pollen species mixtures

TABLE 8 Binomial mixed model to assess if method (WGS or amplicon sequencing) has a significant effect on the proportion of false-positive sequencing reads identified in a pollen mixture. The direction of the trend was always in favor of amplicon sequencing DNA barcodeTaxonomic levelp -valueNrbcLSpecies.506717654Genus.691751354ITS2Species.910274054Genus.000045454rbcL and ITS2 combinedSpecies.9694023106Genus.0993345106