Environmental DNA/RNA for pathogen and parasite detection, surveillance, and ecology

D Bass, KW Christison, GD Stentiford, LSJ Cook… - Trends in …, 2023 - cell.com
Detection of pathogens, parasites, and other symbionts in environmental samples via
eDNA/eRNA (collectively eNA) is an increasingly important source of information about their …

Real‐time genomics for One Health

L Urban, A Perlas, O Francino… - Molecular Systems …, 2023 - embopress.org
The ongoing degradation of natural systems and other environmental changes has put our
society at a crossroad with respect to our future relationship with our planet. While the …

Achieving zero extinction for land plants

RT Corlett - Trends in Plant Science, 2023 - cell.com
Despite the importance of plants for humans and the threats to their future, plant
conservation receives far less support compared with vertebrate conservation. Plants are …

Harnessing the omics revolution to address the global biodiversity crisis

LF De León, B Silva, KJ Avilés-Rodríguez… - Current Opinion in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Human disturbances are driving the current biodiversity crisis.•Fundamental
biodiversity challenges include biodiversity discovery, loss, and preservation.•The omics …

ONTbarcoder 2.0: rapid species discovery and identification with real‐time barcoding facilitated by Oxford Nanopore R10. 4

A Srivathsan, V Feng, D Suárez, B Emerson… - Cladistics, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Most arthropod species are undescribed and hidden in specimen‐rich samples that are
difficult to sort to species using morphological characters. For such samples, sorting to …

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 …

Express barcoding with NextGenPCR and MinION for species‐level sorting of ecological samples

C Vasilita, V Feng, AK Hansen, E Hartop… - Molecular ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The use of DNA barcoding is well established for specimen identification and large‐scale
biodiversity discovery, but remains underutilized for time‐sensitive applications such as …

Illuminating Entomological Dark Matter with DNA Barcodes in an Era of Insect Decline, Deep Learning, and Genomics

R Meier, MKN Lawniczak… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Most insects encountered in the field are initially entomological dark matter in that they
cannot be identified to species while alive. This explains the enduring quest for efficient …

Highly Multiplexed Reverse-Transcription Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification and Nanopore Sequencing (LAMPore) for Wastewater-Based Surveillance

S Kang, P Choi, A Maile-Moskowitz, CL Brown… - ACS Es&t …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Wastewater-based surveillance (WBS) has gained attention as a strategy to monitor and
provide an early warning for disease outbreaks. Here, we applied an isothermal gene …

Microbial biomarkers of tree water status for next‐generation biomonitoring of forest ecosystems

MC Cambon, M Trillat, I Lesur‐Kupin… - Molecular …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Next‐generation biomonitoring proposes to combine machine‐learning algorithms with
environmental DNA data to automate the monitoring of the Earth's major ecosystems. In the …