“…More recently, the massively parallel DNA metabarcoding technology has been adopted for large-scale community-level identification of fungi (Jumpponen and Jones, 2009), protists (Chariton et al, 2010;Medinger et al, 2010) and animals (Porazinska et al, 2009). For meiofauna, metabarcoding studies have focussed on specific order to phylum-level groups such as nematodes or certain arthropods (Porazinska et al, 2009;Hajibabaei et al, 2011). The cytochrome I oxidase gene, the standard barcode for animals, has proven to be suboptimal for metabarcoding analyses owing to problems with primer coverage and large DNA insertions in certain taxa (for example, Creer et al, 2010;de Wit and Erseus, 2010;Deagle et al, 2014;Zhan et al, 2014).…”