Significats de epibiotic diatom en anglès

The structures of the epibiotic diatom assemblages differed between both approaches.

Metabarcoding allowed better discrimination between turtles based on their epibiotic diatom assemblages and put into evidence the presence of a cryptic diatom diversity.

Studying epibiotic diatoms living on turtle shells suggestively has great potential in the study of turtle behavior because diatoms are always there.