Plant–animal interactions in the era of environmental DNA (eDNA)—a review

P Banerjee, KA Stewart, CM Antognazza… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Plant–animal interactions (PAI) represent major channels of energy transfer through
ecosystems, where both positive and antagonistic interactions simultaneously contribute to …

Environmental DNA and metagenomics of terrestrial mammals as keystone taxa of recent and past ecosystems

PA Seeber, LS Epp - Mammal Review, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Terrestrial mammals shape their ecosystems, and mammalian community assemblages can
be important indicators of ecosystem functioning and ecosystem changes over time …

Monkeypox virus emergence in wild chimpanzees reveals distinct clinical outcomes and viral diversity

LV Patrono, K Pléh, L Samuni, M Ulrich… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Monkeypox is a viral zoonotic disease on the rise across endemic habitats. Despite the
growing importance of monkeypox virus, our knowledge on its host spectrum and sylvatic …

Monitoring the birds and the bees: Environmental DNA metabarcoding of flowers detects plant–animal interactions

JP Newton, PW Bateman, MJ Heydenrych… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Animal pollinators are vital for the reproduction of~ 90% of flowering plants. However, many
of these pollinating species are experiencing declines globally, making effective pollinator …

Measuring protected-area effectiveness using vertebrate distributions from leech iDNA

Y Ji, CCM Baker, VD Popescu, J Wang, C Wu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Protected areas are key to meeting biodiversity conservation goals, but direct measures of
effectiveness have proven difficult to obtain. We address this challenge by using …

Environmental DNA metabarcoding as a useful tool for evaluating terrestrial mammal diversity in tropical forests

JL Mena, H Yagui, V Tejeda, E Bonifaz… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Innovative techniques, such as environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding, are now
promoting broader biodiversity monitoring at unprecedented scales, because of the …

Network analysis with either Illumina or MinION reveals that detecting vertebrate species requires metabarcoding of iDNA from a diverse fly community

A Srivathsan, RK Loh, EJ Ong, L Lee, Y Ang… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
DNA obtained from invertebrates (iDNA) can be metabarcoded in order to survey vertebrate
communities. However, little attention has been paid to the interaction between the …

Leech blood‐meal invertebrate‐derived DNA reveals differences in Bornean mammal diversity across habitats

R Drinkwater, T Jucker, JHT Potter… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The application of metabarcoding to environmental and invertebrate‐derived DNA (eDNA
and iDNA) is a new and increasingly applied method for monitoring biodiversity across a …

Dung beetles as samplers of mammals in Malaysian Borneo—A test of high throughput metabarcoding of iDNA

R Drinkwater, J Williamson, EL Clare, AYC Chung… - PeerJ, 2021 - peerj.com
Invertebrate-derived DNA (iDNA) sampling in biodiversity surveys is becoming increasingly
widespread, with most terrestrial studies relying on DNA derived from the gut contents of …

Invertebrates for vertebrate biodiversity monitoring: Comparisons using three insect taxa as iDNA samplers

AL Massey, RVM Bronzoni, DJF da Silva… - Molecular Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Metabarcoding of environmental DNA (eDNA) is now widely used to build diversity profiles
from DNA that has been shed by species into the environment. There is substantial interest …