| unveiling the diet of elusive rainforest herbivores in next generation sequencing era? the tapir as a case study. | characterizing the trophic relationships between large herbivores and the outstanding plant diversity in rainforest is a major challenge because of their elusiveness. this is crucial to understand the role of these herbivores in the functioning of the rainforest ecosystems. we tested a non-invasive approach based on the high-throughput sequencing of environmental samples using small plant plastid sequences (the trnl p6 loop) and ribosomal its1 primers, referred to as dna metabarcoding, to invest ... | 2013 | 23560107 |