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This protocol describes the preparation of sucrose lysis buffer to preserve DNA on sterivex filters. As part of the Hakai Institute Ocean Observing Program, biomolecular samples have been collected weekly, from 0 m to near bottom (260 m), to genetically characterize plankton communities in the Northern Salish Sea since 2015. This protocol is developed to work across all domains of life, from viruses to prokaryotes to eukaryotes, allowing for both amplicon sequencing and shotgun sequencing. The protocol is part of the Hakai Institute's pipeline to analyze microbial and environmental DNA from seawater samples and is implemented as a standard procedure for ongoing sampling programs.
Colleen Kellogg (Mon,) studied this question.