Autonomous eDNA collection using an uncrewed surface vessel over a 4200‐km transect of the eastern Pacific Ocean

C Preston, K Yamahara, D Pargett… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The collection of environmental DNA (eDNA) samples is often laborious, costly, and
logistically difficult to accomplish at high frequency in remote locations and over large …

Barking up the wrong tree

RF de Almeida, MOO Pellegrini, IL de Morais… - Plant Ecology and …, 2023 - JSTOR
Background and aims–Keraunea is a Brazilian endemic genus that has sat uncomfortably in
Convolvulaceae where it was placed due to an enlarged and adnate fruit bract typical of …

Field Trials of an Autonomous eDNA Sampler in Lotic Waters

SD George, AJ Sepulveda, PR Hutchins… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis has become a transformative technology, but sample
collection methods lack standardization and sampling at effective frequencies requires …

[HTML][HTML] Establishment of an Evaluation Indicator System and Evaluation Criteria for the Weihe River Ecological Watersheds

Y Liu, Z Mu, W Dong, Q Huang, F Chai, J Fan - Water, 2024 - mdpi.com
Ecological watersheds (eco-watersheds) are of great significance for boosting the
construction of ecological civilization and realizing the ecological protection and high-quality …

Barking up the wrong tree: the importance of morphology in plant molecular phylogenetic studies

RF de Almeida, M Cheek, MOO Pellegrini, IL de Morais… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Background and aims Keraunea is a genus recently described in Convolvulaceae, though it
has sat uncomfortably in this family. A recent molecular phylogenetic study suggests that its …

Optimal detection protocol of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae by environmental DNA: A comparison of qPCR and ddPCR approaches

M Stelzer, J Ord, S Neyrinck, J Steiner… - Environmental …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Investigation of environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly used to precisely and non‐
invasively detect and monitor pathogens. Among these, Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae is a …

Use of environmental DNA to detect the myxozoan endoparasite Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae in large Norwegian lakes

TJ Oredalen, TA Mo, A Jenkins, N Haugan… - Environmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is an increasingly used noninvasive and cost‐effective method
for species detections in surveillance studies. The myxozoan endoparasite Tetracapsuloides …

[PDF][PDF] Autonomous samplers and environmental DNA metabarcoding: sampling day and primer choice have greatest impact on fish detection probabilities

DN Jones, BC Augustine, P Hutchins… - Metabarcoding and …, 2024 - mbmg.pensoft.net
Unprecedented rates of biodiversity loss and ecosystem function necessitate the use of
rapid, efficacious, and cost-effective biomonitoring tools. The combination of autonomous …

Future directions to manage wildlife health in a changing climate

E Hofmeister, EC Ruhs, LB Fortini, MC Hopkins… - EcoHealth, 2022 - Springer
In September 2019 The Economist wrote an obituary to Okjökull, a glacier in western Iceland
that was declared ''dead''in 2014, a victim of climate change. Although a few wildlife species …

Can moderate heavy metal soil contaminations due to cement production influence the surrounding soil bacterial communities?

TA da Costa Silva, M de Paula Jr, WS Silva, GA Lacorte - Ecotoxicology, 2022 - Springer
Events of soil contamination by heavy metals are mostly related to human activities that
release these metals into the environment as emissions or effluents. Among the industrial …