| ngs metabarcoding proves successful for quantitative assessment of symbiont abundance: the case of feather mites on birds. | understanding the ecological function of species and the structure of communities is crucial in the study of ecological interactions among species. for this purpose, not only the occurrence of particular species but also their abundance in ecological communities is required. however, abundance quantification of species through morphological characters is often difficult or time/money consuming when dealing with elusive or small taxa. here we tested the use of next-generation sequencing (ngs) for ... | 2015 | 26139533 |