Best practices in metabarcoding of fungi: from experimental design to results

L Tedersoo, M Bahram, L Zinger, RH Nilsson… - Molecular …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of highthroughput sequencing (HTS) technologies has greatly improved
our capacity to identify fungi and unveil their ecological roles across a variety of ecosystems …

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 …

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 …

Contamination source modeling with SCRuB improves cancer phenotype prediction from microbiome data

GI Austin, H Park, Y Meydan, D Seeram, T Sezin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Sequencing-based approaches for the analysis of microbial communities are susceptible to
contamination, which could mask biological signals or generate artifactual ones. Methods for …

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 …

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding of pond water as a tool to survey conservation and management priority mammals

LR Harper, LL Handley, AI Carpenter, M Ghazali… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding can identify terrestrial taxa utilising aquatic
habitats alongside aquatic communities, but terrestrial species' eDNA dynamics are …

Human male genital tract microbiota

A Zuber, A Peric, N Pluchino, D Baud… - International journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
The human body is vastly colonised by microorganisms, whose impact on health is
increasingly recognised. The human genital tract hosts a diverse microbiota, and an …

Fecal sample collection methods and time of day impact microbiome composition and short chain fatty acid concentrations

J Jones, SN Reinke, A Ali, DJ Palmer… - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Associations between the human gut microbiome and health outcomes continues to be of
great interest, although fecal sample collection methods which impact microbiome studies …

A manager's guide to using eDNA metabarcoding in marine ecosystems

Z Gold, AR Wall, TM Schweizer, ND Pentcheff, EE Curd… - PeerJ, 2022 - peerj.com
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is a powerful tool that can enhance marine
ecosystem/biodiversity monitoring programs. Here we outline five important steps managers …

Broadening oncological boundaries: the intratumoral microbiota

YQ Lu, H Qiao, XR Tan, N Liu - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
The microbiota of solid tumors was identified> 100 years ago; however, heterogeneous
composition and diversity have been revealed only recently. Growing evidence has …