Table 1.
Articles included in the meta‐analysis
| Author | Species per trial | Sequencer | Starting material | Organisms | Marker |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albaina, Aguirre, Abad, Santos, and Estonba (2016) | 6 | 454 | Biomass | Marine invertebrates (crustaceans, annelids) | 18s |
| Blanckenhorn, Rohner, Bernasconi, Haugstetter, and Buser (2016) | 4 to 9 | Illumina | Biomass | Macroinvertebrates (coleoptera, diptera, hymenoptera) | COI |
| Bokulich and Mills (2013) | 12 | Illumina | DNA/RNA | Yeast | ITS |
| Deagle, Chiaradia, McInnes, and Jarman (2010) | 3 | 454 | Biomass & Faecal | Fish | 16s |
| Diaz‐Real, Serrano, Piriz, and Jovani (2015) | 3 | 454 | Individuals | Feather mites | COI |
| Egge et al. (2013) | 11 | 454 | DNA/RNA | Haptophytes | 18s |
| Elbrecht and Leese (2015) | 52 | Illumina | Biomass | Macroinvertebrates (freshwater) | COI |
| Elbrecht et al. (2016) | 52 | Illumina | Individuals | Macroinvertebrates (freshwater) | COI |
| Elbrecht et al. (2017) | 52 | Illumina | Biomass | Macroinvertebrates (freshwater) | 16s |
| Geisen, Laros, Vizcaíno, Bonkowski, and De Groot (2015) | 8 | 454 | Individuals | Protist culture | 18s |
| Hatzenbuhler, Kelly, Martinson, Okum, and Pilgrim (2017) | 5 | 454 | Biomass | Fish | COI |
| Hirai et al. (2015) | 33 | 454 | Biomass | Copepods | LSU |
| Iwanowicz et al. (2016) | 12 | Illumina | DNA/RNA | Plants | ITS |
| Klymus, Marshall, and Stepien (2017) | 11 | Illumina | DNA/RNA | Bivalves, gastropods | 16s |
| Kraaijeveld et al. (2015) | 6 to 11 | Ion Torrent | Individuals | Plants (pollen) | TrnL |
| Pochon, Bott, Smith, and Wood (2013) | 9 | 454 | DNA/RNA | Marine invertebrates (echinoderms, crustaceans, ascidians, molluscs, annelids) | 18s |
| Porazinska et al. (2010) | 38 | 454 | Individuals | Nematodes | 18s |
| Rocchi, Valot, Reboux, and Millon (2017) | 9 | Illumina | DNA/RNA | Fungus | ITS2 |
| Saitoh et al. (2016) | 9 | 454 | Biomass | Macroinvertebrates (springtails) | 16s, COI |
| Smith, Kohli, Murray, and Rhodes (2017) | 10 | Illumina | Individuals | Dinoflagellates | Cyt b, LSU, 18s |
| Thielecke et al. (2017) | 5 | Illumina | DNA/RNA | Plasmid constructs | n/a |
| Thomas, Deagle, Eveson, Harsch, and Trites (2016) | 3 | Illumina | Biomass | Fish | 16s |