Environmental paleomicrobiology: using DNA preserved in aquatic sediments to its full potential

E Capo, ME Monchamp, MJL Coolen… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
In‐depth knowledge about spatial and temporal variation in microbial diversity and function
is needed for a better understanding of ecological and evolutionary responses to global …

Ancient DNA from marine sediments: Precautions and considerations for seafloor coring, sample handling and data generation

LH Armbrecht, MJL Coolen, F Lejzerowicz… - Earth-Science …, 2019 - Elsevier
The study of ancient DNA (aDNA) from sediments (sed aDNA) offers great potential for
paleoclimate interpretation, and has recently been applied as a tool to characterise past …

Ancient marine sediment DNA reveals diatom transition in Antarctica

L Armbrecht, ME Weber, ME Raymo, VL Peck… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Antarctica is one of the most vulnerable regions to climate change on Earth and studying the
past and present responses of this polar marine ecosystem to environmental change is a …

Hybridisation capture allows DNA damage analysis of ancient marine eukaryotes

L Armbrecht, G Hallegraeff, CJS Bolch, C Woodward… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Marine sedimentary ancient DNA (sed aDNA) is increasingly used to study past ocean
ecosystems, however, studies have been severely limited by the very low amounts of DNA …

Comparing sediment DNA extraction methods for assessing organic enrichment associated with marine aquaculture

JK Pearman, NB Keeley, SA Wood, O Laroche, A Zaiko… - PeerJ, 2020 - peerj.com
Marine sediments contain a high diversity of micro-and macro-organisms which are
important in the functioning of biogeochemical cycles. Traditionally, anthropogenic …

The challenges of reconstructing tropical biodiversity with sedimentary ancient DNA: A 2200-year-long metagenomic record from Bwindi impenetrable forest, Uganda

R Dommain, M Andama, MM McDonough… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Sedimentary ancient DNA has been proposed as a key methodology for reconstructing
biodiversity over time. Yet, despite the concentration of Earth's biodiversity in the tropics, this …

Paleo-diatom composition from Santa Barbara Basin deep-sea sediments: a comparison of 18S-V9 and diat-rbcL metabarcoding vs shotgun metagenomics

L Armbrecht, R Eisenhofer, J Utge… - ISME …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Sedimentary ancient DNA (sed aDNA) analyses are increasingly used to reconstruct marine
ecosystems. The majority of marine sed aDNA studies use a metabarcoding approach …

euka: Robust tetrapodic and arthropodic taxa detection from modern and ancient environmental DNA using pangenomic reference graphs

NA Vogel, JD Rubin, M Swartz… - Methods in Ecology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Ancient environmental DNA (aeDNA) is a crucial source of information for past
environmental reconstruction. However, the computational analysis of aeDNA involves the …

An Outlook for the Acquisition of Marine Sedimentary Ancient DNA (sedaDNA) From North Atlantic Ocean Archive Material

CA Selway, L Armbrecht… - Paleoceanography and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Studies incorporating sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) analyses to investigate paleo‐
environments have increased considerably over the last few years, and the possibility of …

Sedimentary DNA for tracking the long-term changes in biodiversity

H Li, H Zhang, F Chang, Q Liu, Y Zhang, F Liu… - … Science and Pollution …, 2023 - Springer
Understanding long-term dynamics is vitally important for explaining current biodiversity
patterns and setting conservation goals in a changing world. However, the changes in …