Toward quantitative metabarcoding

AO Shelton, ZJ Gold, AJ Jensen, ED′ Agnese… - Ecology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Amplicon‐sequence data from environmental DNA (eDNA) and microbiome studies provide
important information for ecology, conservation, management, and health. At present …

DNA metabarcoding—Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions

L Zinger, A Bonin, IG Alsos, M Bálint, H Bik… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
DNA metabarcoding, especially when coupled with high‐through‐put DNA sequencing, is
currently revolutionizing our capacity to assess biodiversity across a full range of taxa and …

A pile of pipelines: An overview of the bioinformatics software for metabarcoding data analyses

A Hakimzadeh, A Abdala Asbun… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has gained growing attention as a strategy for
monitoring biodiversity in ecology. However, taxa identifications produced through …

Minimizing polymerase biases in metabarcoding

RV Nichols, C Vollmers, LA Newsom… - Molecular ecology …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
DNA metabarcoding is an increasingly popular method to characterize and quantify
biodiversity in environmental samples. Metabarcoding approaches simultaneously amplify a …

[HTML][HTML] SLIM: a flexible web application for the reproducible processing of environmental DNA metabarcoding data

Y Dufresne, F Lejzerowicz, LA Perret-Gentil… - BMC …, 2019 - Springer
Background High-throughput amplicon sequencing of environmental DNA (eDNA
metabarcoding) has become a routine tool for biodiversity survey and ecological studies. By …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding PCR processes to draw meaningful conclusions from environmental DNA studies

RP Kelly, AO Shelton, R Gallego - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
As environmental DNA (eDNA) studies have grown in popularity for use in ecological
applications, it has become clear that their results differ in significant ways from those of …

Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities

K Deiner, HM Bik, E Mächler, M Seymour… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The genomic revolution has fundamentally changed how we survey biodiversity on earth.
High‐throughput sequencing (“HTS”) platforms now enable the rapid sequencing of DNA …

How quantitative is metabarcoding: A meta‐analytical approach

PD Lamb, E Hunter, JK Pinnegar, S Creer… - Molecular …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Metabarcoding has been used in a range of ecological applications such as taxonomic
assignment, dietary analysis and the analysis of environmental DNA. However, after a …

Revisiting the effect of PCR replication and sequencing depth on biodiversity metrics in environmental DNA metabarcoding

S Shirazi, RS Meyer, B Shapiro - Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is an increasingly popular tool for measuring
and cataloguing biodiversity. Because the environments and substrates in which DNA is …

Replication levels, false presences and the estimation of the presence/absence from eDNA metabarcoding data

GF Ficetola, J Pansu, A Bonin… - Molecular ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is increasingly used to study the present and
past biodiversity. eDNA analyses often rely on amplification of very small quantities or …