A critique of Rossberg et al. : noise obscures the genetic signal of meiobiotal ecospecies in ecogenomic datasets

Abstract

High-throughput sequencing of DNA marker genes recovered from environmental samples (known as ecogenomics or metabarcoding) is an emerging tool for understanding patterns and processes in ecology and biodiversity [[1][1]]. The recent paper ‘Are there species smaller than 1 mm?’ [[2][2]] was