Metabarcoding reveals a more complex cyanobacterial community than morphological identification

Next generation sequencing has become a popular method to identify cyanobacterial diversity in ecosystems. Morphological identification poses challenges in deciphering cyanobacterial diversity because phenotypic variations can be misleading, picocyanobacteria are ignored easily, specialists familiar with classification systems are lacking, and updates of taxonomic treatises are not shared in a timely manner or adopted by researchers engaged in...