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Environmental DNA for biomonitoring [PDF]
Molecular Ecology, 2021 International ...
Jan Pawlowski +4 more
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Environmental DNA for improved detection and environmental surveillance of schistosomiasis [PDF]
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019 Significance Accurate detection and delineation of schistosomiasis transmission sites will be vital in ongoing efforts to control and ultimately eliminate one of the most neglected tropical parasitic diseases affecting >250 million people worldwide. Conventional methods to detect parasites in the environment are cumbersome and have
Mita E. Sengupta +11 more
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Biodiversity monitoring using environmental DNA
Molecular Ecology Resources, 2021 Monitoring biodiversity is essential to protect, preserve and restore ecosystems, particularly in the context of current challenges such as climate change, habitat destruction and globalization (Baird & Hajibabaei, 2012). Biomonitoring is needed for developing biotic indices for assessing ecological status, measuring impacts of anthropogenic activities
Naiara Rodríguez‐Ezpeleta +10 more
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Sponges as natural environmental DNA samplers [PDF]
Current Biology, 2019 At a time of unprecedented impacts on marine biodiversity, scientists are rapidly becoming persuaded by the potential of screening large swathes of the oceans through the retrieval, amplification and sequencing of trace DNA fragments left behind by marine organisms; an approach known as 'environmental DNA' (eDNA) [1].
Mariani, Stefano +3 more
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The Role of Methylation of DNA in Environmental Adaptation [PDF]
Integrative and Comparative Biology, 2013 Methylation of DNA is an epigenetic mechanism that influences patterns of gene expression. DNA methylation marks contribute to adaptive phenotypic variation but are erased during development. The role of DNA methylation in adaptive evolution is therefore unclear.
Kevin B, Flores +2 more
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Survival of environmental DNA in sediments: Mineralogic control on DNA taphonomy [PDF]
Environmental DNA, 2020 Abstract Extraction of environmental DNA (eDNA) from sediments are providing ground-breaking views of the past ecosystems and biodiversity. Despite this rich source of information, it is still unclear which sediments favour preservation and why.
Freeman, C.L. +6 more
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The California environmental DNA “CALeDNA” program [PDF]
, 2019 Abstract Global change is leading to habitat shifts that threaten species persistence throughout California’s unique ecosystems. Baseline biodiversity data provide opportunities for ecosystems to be managed for community complexity and connectivity.
Meyer, Rachel +24 more
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Metagenomics: DNA sequencing of environmental samples [PDF]
Nature Reviews Genetics, 2005 Although genomics has classically focused on pure, easy-to-obtain samples, such as microbes that grow readily in culture or large animals and plants, these organisms represent only a fraction of the living or once-living organisms of interest. Many species are difficult to study in isolation because they fail to grow in laboratory culture, depend on ...
Tringe, Susannah Green, Rubin, Edward M.
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Persistence of environmental DNA in marine systems [PDF]
Communications Biology, 2018 AbstractAs environmental DNA (eDNA) becomes an increasingly valuable resource for marine ecosystem monitoring, understanding variation in its persistence across contrasting environments is critical. Here, we quantify the breakdown of macrobial eDNA over a spatio-temporal axis of locally extreme conditions, varying from ocean-influenced offshore to ...
Rupert A. Collins +5 more
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Environmental DNA for conservation
, 2021 Abstract Detection and monitoring of wildlife species of concern is a costly and time-consuming challenge that is critical to the management of such species. Tools such as lures and traps can cause unnecessary stress or other health impacts to sensitive species.
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