Universal metabarcoding of pico- to mesoplankton reveals seasonal dynamics and a bacterial bloom Christian Wurzbacher 1, 2, 3 , Katrin Attermeyer 2, 4 , Marie Therese Kettner 2 , Clara Flintrop 3 , Norman Warthmann 3, 5, 6 , Sabine Hilt 6 , Hans-Peter Grossart 2, 7 , Michael T. Monaghan 3, 6 1 University of Gothenburg, Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Box 461, 40530 Göteborg, Sweden 2 Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Alte Fischerhütte 2, 16775 Stechlin, Germany 3 Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, 14195 Berlin, Germany 4 Uppsala University, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Limnology, Norbyvägen 18D, 75236 Uppsala, Sweden 5 The Australian National University, Research School of Biology, Linnaeus Way, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 6 Leibniz-Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggelseedamm 301, 12587 Berlin, Germany 7 Potsdam University, Institute of Biochemistry and Biology, Maulbeerallee 2, 14469 Potsdam, Germany Corresponding authors: Christian Wurzbacher (christian@wurzbacher.cc), Katrin Attermeyer (katrin.attermeyer@ebc.uu.se) The authors declare no confict of interest 1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1 2 . CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license available under a not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted bioRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made The copyright holder for this preprint (which was this version posted June 13, 2016. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/058628 doi: bioRxiv preprint