Prospects and challenges of implementing DNA metabarcoding for high-throughput insect surveillance

AM Piper, J Batovska, NOI Cogan, J Weiss… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Trap-based surveillance strategies are widely used for monitoring of invasive insect species,
aiming to detect newly arrived exotic taxa as well as track the population levels of …

Using metagenomics to investigate human and environmental resistomes

J Bengtsson-Palme, DGJ Larsson… - Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Antibiotic resistance is a global health concern declared by the WHO as one of the largest
threats to modern healthcare. In recent years, metagenomic DNA sequencing has started to …

Comparing environmental metabarcoding and trawling survey of demersal fish communities in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada

SF Afzali, H Bourdages, M Laporte, C Mérot… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity assessment is an important part of conservation management that ideally can
be accomplished with noninvasive methods without influencing the structure and functioning …

Next-generation sequencing and PCR technologies in monitoring the hospital microbiome and its drug resistance

C Cason, M D'Accolti, I Soffritti, S Mazzacane… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The hospital environment significantly contributes to the onset of healthcare-associated
infections (HAIs), which represent one of the most frequent complications occurring in …

On expert curation and scalability: UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot as a case study

S Poux, CN Arighi, M Magrane, A Bateman… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Biological knowledgebases, such as UniProtKB/Swiss-Prot, constitute an
essential component of daily scientific research by offering distilled, summarized and …

Developing a non-destructive metabarcoding protocol for detection of pest insects in bulk trap catches

J Batovska, AM Piper, I Valenzuela, JP Cunningham… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Metabarcoding has the potential to revolutionise insect surveillance by providing high-
throughput and cost-effective species identification of all specimens within mixed trap …

The diversity of uncharacterized antibiotic resistance genes can be predicted from known gene variants—but not always

J Bengtsson-Palme - Microbiome, 2018 - Springer
Background Antibiotic resistance is considered one of the most urgent threats to modern
healthcare, and the role of the environment in resistance development is increasingly …

[HTML][HTML] Best practice data life cycle approaches for the life sciences

PC Griffin, J Khadake, KS LeMay, SE Lewis… - …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Throughout history, the life sciences have been revolutionised by technological advances; in
our era this is manifested by advances in instrumentation for data generation, and …

Metaxa2 Database Builder: enabling taxonomic identification from metagenomic or metabarcoding data using any genetic marker

J Bengtsson-Palme, RT Richardson, M Meola… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Motivation Correct taxonomic identification of DNA sequences is central to studies of
biodiversity using both shotgun metagenomic and metabarcoding approaches. However, no …

Community eDNA metabarcoding as a detection tool for documenting freshwater mussel (Unionidae) species assemblages

SA Coghlan, CA Currier, J Freeland… - Environmental …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Documenting species occurrences and habitat occupancy of unionid mussels can often be
challenging. Environmental DNA (eDNA) has been shown to be a reliable tool for detecting …