Mitochondrial metagenomics: letting the genes out of the bottle

A Crampton-Platt, DW Yu, X Zhou, AP Vogler - GigaScience, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract 'Mitochondrial metagenomics'(MMG) is a methodology for shotgun sequencing of
total DNA from specimen mixtures and subsequent bioinformatic extraction of mitochondrial …

The use of DNA barcodes in food web construction—terrestrial and aquatic ecologists unite!

T Roslin, S Majaneva - Genome, 2016 - cdnsciencepub.com
By depicting who eats whom, food webs offer descriptions of how groupings in nature
(typically species or populations) are linked to each other. For asking questions on how food …

[图书][B] Environmental DNA: For biodiversity research and monitoring

P Taberlet, A Bonin, L Zinger, E Coissac - 2018 - books.google.com
Environmental DNA (eDNA) refers to DNA that can be extracted from environmental
samples (such as soil, water, feces, or air) without the prior isolation of any target organism …

From barcodes to genomes: extending the concept of DNA barcoding

E Coissac, PM Hollingsworth, S Lavergne, P Taberlet - 2016 - Wiley Online Library
DNA barcoding has had a major impact on biodiversity science. The elegant simplicity of
establishing massive scale databases for a few barcode loci is continuing to change our …

[HTML][HTML] Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016 - Springer
Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

[HTML][HTML] High-throughput sequencing of multiple amplicons for barcoding and integrative taxonomy

P Cruaud, JY Rasplus, LJ Rodriguez, A Cruaud - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Until now, the potential of NGS for the construction of barcode libraries or integrative
taxonomy has been seldom realised. Here, we amplified (two-step PCR) and simultaneously …

Mitochondrial metagenomics reveals the ancient origin and phylodiversity of soil mites and provides a phylogeny of the Acari

P Arribas, C Andújar, ML Moraza… - Molecular Biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
High-throughput DNA methods hold great promise for phylogenetic analysis of lineages that
are difficult to study with conventional molecular and morphological approaches. The mites …

[HTML][HTML] Genome skimming is a low-cost and robust strategy to assemble complete mitochondrial genomes from ethanol preserved specimens in biodiversity studies

B Trevisan, DMC Alcantara, DJ Machado… - PeerJ, 2019 - peerj.com
Global loss of biodiversity is an ongoing process that concerns both local and global
authorities. Studies of biodiversity mainly involve traditional methods using morphological …

[PDF][PDF] MtDNA: The small workhorse of evolutionary studies

R DeSalle, B Schierwater, H Hadrys - Front Biosci, 2017 - researchgate.net
The double-stranded, circular mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is present in all eukaryotic
life forms, was initially discovered and characterized in the last century and has been widely …

Advances and prospects of environmental DNA in neotropical rainforests

L Zinger, J Donald, S Brosse, MA Gonzalez… - Advances in ecological …, 2020 - Elsevier
The rainforests of the Neotropics shelter a vast diversity of plant, animal and microscopic
species that provide critical ecosystem goods and services for both local and worldwide …