MiFish metabarcoding: a high-throughput approach for simultaneous detection of multiple fish species from environmental DNA and other samples

M Miya, RO Gotoh, T Sado - Fisheries Science, 2020 - Springer
We reviewed the current methodology and practices of the DNA metabarcoding approach
using a universal PCR primer pair MiFish, which co-amplifies a short fragment of fish DNA …

Lake sedimentary DNA research on past terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity: Overview and recommendations

E Capo, C Giguet-Covex, A Rouillard, K Nota… - Quaternary, 2021 - mdpi.com
The use of lake sedimentary DNA to track the long-term changes in both terrestrial and
aquatic biota is a rapidly advancing field in paleoecological research. Although largely …

Navigating the seven challenges of taxonomic reference databases in metabarcoding analyses

F Keck, M Couton, F Altermatt - Molecular Ecology Resources, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Assessment of biodiversity using metabarcoding data, such as from bulk or environmental
DNA sampling, is becoming increasingly relevant in ecology, biodiversity sciences and …

eDNA metabarcoding as a biomonitoring tool for marine protected areas

Z Gold, J Sprague, DJ Kushner, E Zerecero Marin… - PLoS …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Monitoring of marine protected areas (MPAs) is critical for marine ecosystem management,
yet current protocols rely on SCUBA-based visual surveys that are costly and time …

The expanding role of DNA barcodes: Indispensable tools for ecology, evolution, and conservation

MR Gostel, WJ Kress - Diversity, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA barcoding has transformed the fields of ecology, evolution, and conservation by
providing a rapid and effective tool for species identification. The growth of DNA barcodes as …

Improving metabarcoding taxonomic assignment: A case study of fishes in a large marine ecosystem

Z Gold, EE Curd, KD Goodwin, ES Choi… - Molecular ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
DNA metabarcoding is an important tool for molecular ecology. However, its effectiveness
hinges on the quality of reference sequence databases and classification parameters …

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 …

eDNA captures depth partitioning in a kelp forest ecosystem

K Monuki, PH Barber, Z Gold - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is an increasingly important tool for surveying
biodiversity in marine ecosystems. However, the scale of temporal and spatial variability in …

Benchmarking bioinformatic tools for fast and accurate eDNA metabarcoding species identification

L Mathon, A Valentini, PE Guérin… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bioinformatic analysis of eDNA metabarcoding data is a crucial step toward rigorously
assessing biodiversity. Many programs are now available for each step of the required …

eDNAFlow, an automated, reproducible and scalable workflow for analysis of environmental DNA sequences exploiting Nextflow and Singularity

M Mousavi‐Derazmahalleh, A Stott… - Molecular Ecology …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metabarcoding of environmental DNA (eDNA) when coupled with high throughput
sequencing is revolutionising the way biodiversity can be monitored across a wide range of …