Characterizing the Diets of Siphonophores (Cnidaria:Hydrozoa) in the Offshore Central California Current Ecosystem using DNA Metabarcoding

Alejandro Damian-Serrano1, Elizabeth Hetherington2, Anela Choy3, Steven Haddock4 and Casey W Dunn1, (1)Yale University, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, New Haven, CT, United States, (2)University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States, (3)Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, Integrative Oceanography Division, La Jolla, CA, United States, (4)Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, Moss Landing, CA, United States