Environmental DNA and metagenomics of terrestrial mammals as keystone taxa of recent and past ecosystems

PA Seeber, LS Epp - Mammal Review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial mammals shape their ecosystems, and mammalian community assemblages can
be important indicators of ecosystem functioning and ecosystem changes over time …

Mammal mitogenomics from invertebrate‐derived DNA

R Danabalan, K Merkel, I Bærholm Schnell… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The metabarcoding of vertebrate DNA found in invertebrate‐derived DNA (iDNA) has
proven a powerful tool for monitoring biodiversity. To date, iDNA has primarily been used to …

Ethical considerations for human sequences in environmental DNA

H Doi, RP Kelly - Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2023 - nature.com
The analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) is a rapidly developing field with great potential
and as-yet-undreamed-of uses in conservation and ecology 1–3. Residual genetic …

Environmental DNA and metabarcoding for the study of amphibians and reptiles: species distribution, the microbiome, and much more

GF Ficetola, R Manenti, P Taberlet - Amphibia-Reptilia, 2019 - brill.com
In the last decade, eDNA and metabarcoding have opened new avenues to biodiversity
studies; amphibians and reptiles are animals for which these new approaches have allowed …

Environmental DNA Metabarcoding: A Novel contrivance for documenting terrestrial biodiversity

S Hassan, Sabreena, P Poczai, BA Ganai, WH Almalki… - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The innovative concept of environmental DNA has found its foot in aquatic
ecosystems but remains an unexplored area of research concerning terrestrial ecosystems …

[HTML][HTML] Airborne environmental DNA for terrestrial vertebrate community monitoring

C Lynggaard, MF Bertelsen, CV Jensen, MS Johnson… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Biodiversity monitoring at the community scale is a critical element of assessing and
studying species distributions, ecology, diversity, and movements, and it is key to …

Advances in using non-invasive, archival, and environmental samples for population genomic studies

KR Andrews, M De Barba, MA Russello… - Population genomics …, 2021 - Springer
Recent advances in DNA sequencing and genotyping technologies are rapidly building our
capacity to address ecological, evolutionary, and conservation questions for wildlife species …

Airborne environmental DNA captures terrestrial vertebrate diversity in nature

C Lynggaard, TG Frøslev, MS Johnson… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The current biodiversity and climate crises highlight the need for efficient tools to monitor
terrestrial ecosystems. Here, we provide evidence for the use of airborne eDNA analyses as …

Using eDNA for mammal inventories still needs naturalist expertise, a meta‐analysis

P Van Leeuwen, J Michaux - Ecology and Evolution, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
DNA from the environment (eDNA) has been increasingly used as a new tool to conduct
biodiversity assessment. Because of its noninvasive and less time‐consuming nature, many …

Assessing the potential of environmental DNA metabarcoding for monitoring Neotropical mammals: a case study in the Amazon and Atlantic Forest, Brazil

NG Sales, MC Kaizer, I Coscia, JC Perkins… - Mammal …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The application of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding as a biomonitoring tool has
greatly increased, but studies have focused on temperate aquatic macro‐organisms. We …