Environmental RNA as a Tool for Marine Community Biodiversity Assessments

The current state of eDNA research in freshwater ecosystems: are we shifting from the developmental phase to standard application in biomonitoring?

(2022) Tamara Schenekar   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Assessing the performance and efficiency of environmental DNA/RNA capture methodologies under controlled experimental conditions

(2022) Anastasija Zaiko et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Environmental RNA outperforms eDNA metabarcoding in assessing impact of marine pollution: A chromium-spiked mesocosm test

(2022) Mattia Greco et al.   CHEMOSPHERE

Environmental (e)RNA advances the reliability of eDNA by predicting its age

(2021) Nathaniel T. Marshall et al.   Scientific Reports

Quantifying shedding and degradation rates of environmental DNA (eDNA) from Pacific crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster cf. solaris)

(2021) Sarah L. T. Kwong et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Environmental DNA metabarcoding for benthic monitoring: A review of sediment sampling and DNA extraction methods

(2021) J. Pawlowski et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

DNA Metabarcoding Methods for the Study of Marine Benthic Meiofauna: A Review

(2021) Romy Gielings et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Are meiofauna a standard meal for macroinvertebrates and juvenile fish?

(2020) Christoph Ptatscheck et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Ecological risks of metal and metalloid contamination in the Rio Doce estuary

(2020) Fabrício A. Gabriel et al.   Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management

The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes)

(2020) Maria Balsamo et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Are Environmental DNA Methods Ready for Aquatic Invasive Species Management?

(2020) Adam J. Sepulveda et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Environmental DNA can act as a biodiversity barometer of anthropogenic pressures in coastal ecosystems

(2020) Joseph D. DiBattista et al.   Scientific Reports

Quantitative food web modeling unravels the importance of the microphytobenthos-meiofauna pathway for a high trophic transfer by meiofauna in soft-bottom intertidal food webs.

(2020) L.H. van der Heijden et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Idiosyncratic responses of meiofaunal assemblages to hippo dung inputs in an estuarine lake

(2020) Jessica Dawson et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Advances in metabarcoding techniques bring us closer to reliable monitoring of the marine benthos

(2020) Margaux Steyaert et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Meiofauna improve oxygenation and accelerate sulfide removal in the seasonally hypoxic seabed

(2020) Stefano Bonaglia et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

Should we redefine meiofaunal organisms? The impact of mesh size on collection of meiofauna with special regard to nematodes

(2020) C. Ptatscheck et al.   AQUATIC ECOLOGY

Marine biomonitoring with eDNA: Can metabarcoding of water samples cut it as a tool for surveying benthic communities?

(2020) Adrià Antich et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

qPCR-based assessment of microfaunal indicators of oil for monitoring benthos around oil and gas platforms

(2020) Adriana Krolicka et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Calibrating Environmental DNA Metabarcoding to Conventional Surveys for Measuring Fish Species Richness

(2020) Mary E. McElroy et al.   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

(2019) Evan Bolyen et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Integration of eDNA‐Based Biological Monitoring within the U.S. Geological Survey’s National Streamgage Network

(2019) David S. Pilliod et al.   JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN WATER RESOURCES ASSOCIATION

Can Environmental RNA Revolutionize Biodiversity Science?

(2019) Melania E. Cristescu   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Predicting the fate of eDNA in the environment and implications for studying biodiversity

(2019) Jori B. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Release and degradation of environmental DNA and RNA in a marine system

(2019) Susanna A. Wood et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Uses and Misuses of Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Science and Conservation

(2018) Melania E. Cristescu et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

Metabarcoding using multiplexed markers increases species detection in complex zooplankton communities

(2018) Guang K. Zhang et al.   Evolutionary Applications

Metabarcoding of marine environmental DNA based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes

(2018) Babett Günther et al.   Scientific Reports

Single Cell Analysis Linking Ribosomal (r)DNA and rRNA Copy Numbers to Cell Size and Growth Rate Provides Insights into Molecular Protistan Ecology

(2017) Rao Fu et al.   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities

(2017) Kristy Deiner et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Ecosystem biomonitoring with eDNA: metabarcoding across the tree of life in a tropical marine environment

(2017) Michael Stat et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2017) Olivier Laroche et al.   PeerJ

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding assays to detect invasive invertebrate species in the Great Lakes

(2017) Katy E. Klymus et al.   PLoS One

Wanted dead or alive? Using metabarcoding of environmental DNA and RNA to distinguish living assemblages for biosecurity applications

(2017) Xavier Pochon et al.   PLoS One

First evaluation of foraminiferal metabarcoding for monitoring environmental impact from an offshore oil drilling site

(2016) Olivier Laroche et al.   MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH

DADA2: High-resolution sample inference from Illumina amplicon data

(2016) Benjamin J Callahan et al.   NATURE METHODS

The ecology of environmental DNA and implications for conservation genetics

(2015) Matthew A. Barnes et al.   CONSERVATION GENETICS

Metabarcoding of benthic eukaryote communities predicts the ecological condition of estuaries

(2015) Anthony A. Chariton et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Is the meiofauna a good indicator for climate change and anthropogenic impacts?

(2015) Daniela Zeppilli et al.   Marine Biodiversity

A molecular-based approach for examining responses of eukaryotes in microcosms to contaminant-spiked estuarine sediments

(2014) Anthony A. Chariton et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

Invertebrate community responses to a particulate- and dissolved-copper exposure in model freshwater ecosystems

(2014) Stephanie Gardham et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND CHEMISTRY

The deep sea is a major sink for microplastic debris

(2014) L. C. Woodall et al.   Royal Society Open Science

A new versatile primer set targeting a short fragment of the mitochondrial COI region for metabarcoding metazoan diversity: application for characterizing coral reef fish gut contents

(2013) Matthieu Leray et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

High sensitivity of 454 pyrosequencing for detection of rare species in aquatic communities

(2013) Aibin Zhan et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

DNA Barcoding of Marine Metazoa

(2010) Ann Bucklin et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

The use of meiofauna diversity as an indicator of pollution in harbours

(2008) M. Moreno et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE