High throughput shotgun sequencing of eRNA reveals taxonomic and derived functional shifts across a benthic productivity gradient

E Broman, S Bonaglia, A Norkko, S Creer… - Molecular …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Benthic macrofauna is regularly used in monitoring programmes, however the vast majority
of benthic eukaryotic biodiversity lies mostly in microscopic organisms, such as meiofauna …

Sample size effects on the assessment of eukaryotic diversity and community structure in aquatic sediments using high-throughput sequencing

FJA Nascimento, D Lallias, HM Bik, S Creer - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Understanding how biodiversity changes in time and space is vital to assess the effects of
environmental change on benthic ecosystems. Due to the limitations of morphological …

High-throughput sequencing and morphology perform equally well for benthic monitoring of marine ecosystems

F Lejzerowicz, P Esling, L Pillet, TA Wilding, KD Black… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Environmental diversity surveys are crucial for the bioassessment of anthropogenic impacts
on marine ecosystems. Traditional benthic monitoring relying on morphotaxonomic …

Environmental monitoring through protist next‐generation sequencing metabarcoding: assessing the impact of fish farming on benthic foraminifera communities

J Pawlowski, P Esling, F Lejzerowicz… - Molecular ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The measurement of species diversity represents a powerful tool for assessing the impacts
of human activities on marine ecosystems. Traditionally, the impact of fish farming on the …

Metabarcoding monitoring analysis: the pros and cons of using co-extracted environmental DNA and RNA data to assess offshore oil production impacts on benthic …

O Laroche, SA Wood, LA Tremblay, G Lear, JI Ellis… - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
Sequencing environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly being used as an alternative to
traditional morphological-based identification to characterize biological assemblages and …

Predicting the ecological quality status of marine environments from eDNA metabarcoding data using supervised machine learning

T Cordier, P Esling, F Lejzerowicz, J Visco… - … science & technology, 2017 - ACS Publications
Monitoring biodiversity is essential to assess the impacts of increasing anthropogenic
activities in marine environments. Traditionally, marine biomonitoring involves the sorting …

[HTML][HTML] An assessment of environmental metabarcoding protocols aiming at favoring contemporary biodiversity in inventories of deep-sea communities

MI Brandt, B Trouche, N Henry… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The abyssal seafloor covers more than 50% of planet Earth and is a large reservoir of still
mostly undescribed biodiversity. It is increasingly targeted by resource-extraction industries …

[HTML][HTML] Eukaryotic biodiversity and spatial patterns in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone and other abyssal regions: Insights from sediment DNA and RNA metabarcoding

F Lejzerowicz, AJ Gooday… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The abyssal seafloor is a mosaic of highly diverse habitats that represent the least known
marine ecosystems on Earth. Some regions enriched in natural resources, such as …

RNA outperforms DNA-based metabarcoding in assessing the diversity and response of microeukaryotes to environmental variables in the Arctic Ocean

H Kong, EJ Yang, N Jiao, Y Lee, J Jung, KH Cho… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Arctic Ocean (AO) has a harsh environment characterized by low temperatures,
extensive ice coverage, and periodic freezing and melting of sea ice, which has provided …

Assessing the degradation of environmental DNA and RNA based on genomic origin in a metabarcoding context

K Kagzi, KL Millette, JE Littlefair, X Pochon… - Environmental …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular tools of species identification based on eNAs (environmental nucleic acids;
environmental DNA [eDNA] and environmental RNA [eRNA]) have the potential to greatly …