Barcoding bamboozled by bacteria: convergence to metazoan mitochondrial primer targets by marine microbes.

MARK E. SIDDALL1∗, FRANK M. FONTANELLA2, SARA C. WATSON1, SEBASTIAN KVIST3, AND CHRISTER ERSÉUS4 1 Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA; 2 The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, New York, USA; 3 Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA; 4 Department of Zoology, University of Gothenburg, Göteborg, Sweden; ∗Correspondence to be sent to: Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA; E-mail: [email protected].