Environmental conditions influence eDNA persistence in aquatic systems

MA Barnes, CR Turner, CL Jerde… - … science & technology, 2014 - ACS Publications
Environmental DNA (eDNA) surveillance holds great promise for improving species
conservation and management. However, few studies have investigated eDNA dynamics …

Extracellular DNA in natural environments: features, relevance and applications

M Nagler, H Insam, G Pietramellara… - Applied microbiology and …, 2018 - Springer
Extracellular DNA (exDNA) is abundant in many habitats, including soil, sediments, oceans
and freshwater as well as the intercellular milieu of metazoa. For a long time, its origin has …

Environmental DNA for improved detection and environmental surveillance of schistosomiasis

ME Sengupta, M Hellström… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Schistosomiasis is a water-based, infectious disease with high morbidity and significant
economic burdens affecting> 250 million people globally. Disease control has, with notable …

Harnessing decay rates for coastal marine biosecurity applications: A review of environmental DNA and RNA fate

M Scriver, A Zaiko, X Pochon… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Marine nonindigenous species (NIS) are spreading at an alarming rate internationally
through anthropogenic activities such as shipping and aquaculture, affecting local …

Dead or alive: sediment DNA archives as tools for tracking aquatic evolution and adaptation

M Ellegaard, MRJ Clokie, T Czypionka… - Communications …, 2020 - nature.com
DNA can be preserved in marine and freshwater sediments both in bulk sediment and in
intact, viable resting stages. Here, we assess the potential for combined use of ancient …

Microbiology of the Red Sea (and other) deep‐sea anoxic brine lakes

A Antunes, DK Ngugi, U Stingl - Environmental microbiology …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Summary The Red Sea harbours approximately 25 deep‐sea anoxic brine pools. They
constitute extremely unique and complex habitats with the conjugation of several extreme …

Unraveling signatures of biogeochemical processes and the depositional setting in the molecular composition of pore water DOM across different marine …

F Schmidt, BP Koch, T Goldhammer, M Elvert… - … et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Dissolved organic matter (DOM) in marine sediment pore waters derives largely from
decomposition of particulate organic matter and its composition is influenced by various …

Seasonal variability in the persistence of dissolved environmental DNA (eDNA) in a marine system: The role of microbial nutrient limitation

I Salter - PLoS One, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Environmental DNA (eDNA) can be defined as the DNA pool recovered from an
environmental sample that includes both extracellular and intracellular DNA. There has …

Vertical distribution of microbial communities in a perennially stratified Arctic lake with saline, anoxic bottom waters

AM Comeau, T Harding, PE Galand, WF Vincent… - Scientific reports, 2012 - nature.com
Meromictic lakes are useful biogeochemical models because of their stratified chemical
gradients and separation of redox reactions down the water column. Perennially ice-covered …

A new adsorption-elution technique for the concentration of aquatic extracellular antibiotic resistance genes from large volumes of water

DN Wang, L Liu, ZG Qiu, ZQ Shen, X Guo, D Yang, J Li… - Water Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Extracellular antibiotic resistance genes (eARGs) that help in the transmission and spread of
antibiotic-resistant bacteria are emerging environmental contaminants in water, and there is …