Corrigendum: Validation and Development of COI Metabarcoding Primers for Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Bioassessment

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A corrigendum on Validation and Development of COI Metabarcoding Primers for Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Bioassessment by Elbrecht, V., and Leese, F. (2017). Front. Environ. Sci. 5:11. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00011 In the original article, the reference for Bista et al. (2017) was incorrectly written as “Carvalho, G. R., Walsh, K., Seymour, M., Hajibabaei, M., Lallias, D., Christmas, M., et al. (2017). Annual time-series analysis of aqueous eDNA reveals ecologically relevant dynamics of lake ecosystem biodiversity. Nat. Commun. 8, 1–11. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14087.” It should be “Bista, I., Carvalho, G. R., Walsh, K., Seymour, M., Hajibabaei, M., Lallias, D., et al. (2017). Annual time-series analysis of aqueous eDNA reveals ecologically relevant dynamics of lake ecosystem biodiversity. Nat. Commun. 8, 1–11. doi: 10.1038/ncomms14087.” In the original article, there was a mistake in Table 2 as published. “Ephemeroptera” and taxa abundance (8) are missing in the table. The corrected Table appears below. The authors apologize for this error and state that this does not change the scientific conclusions of the article in any way. Table 2. Number of species recovered with the newly developed primers and data on 16S and Folmer primers from previous tests (Elbrecht and Leese, 2015; Elbrecht et al., 2016). The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. Elbrecht, V., and Leese, F. (2015). Can DNA-based ecosystem assessments quantify species abundance? Testing primer bias and biomass—sequence relationships with an innovative metabarcoding protocol. PLoS ONE 10:e0130324. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0130324 PubMed Abstract | CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Elbrecht, V., Taberlet, P., Dejean, T., Valentini, A., Usseglio-Polatera, P., Beisel, J.-N., et al. (2016). Testing the potential of a ribosomal 16S marker for DNA metabarcoding of insects. PeerJ 4, e1966–e1912. doi: 10.7717/peerj.1966 PubMed Abstract | CrossRef Full Text | Google Scholar Keywords: DNA barcoding, primer development, primer evaluation, primer bias, ecosystem assessment, in silico PCR, invertebrates Citation: Elbrecht V and Leese F (2017) Corrigendum: Validation and Development of COI Metabarcoding Primers for Freshwater Macroinvertebrate Bioassessment. Front. Environ. Sci. 5:38. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00038 Received: 04 May 2017; Accepted: 13 June 2017; Published: 23 June 2017. Edited and reviewed by: Michael M. Douglas, University of Western Australia, Australia Copyright © 2017 Elbrecht and Leese. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. *Correspondence: Vasco Elbrecht, Vasco.Elbrecht@uni-due.de