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

The importance of molecular markers and primer design when characterizing biodiversity from environmental DNA

(2017) Joanna R. Freeland   GENOME

Next-Generation Global Biomonitoring: Large-scale, Automated Reconstruction of Ecological Networks

(2017) David A. Bohan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Annual time-series analysis of aqueous eDNA reveals ecologically relevant dynamics of lake ecosystem biodiversity

(2017) Iliana Bista et al.   Nature Communications

Using DNA metabarcoding to investigate honey bee foraging reveals limited flower use despite high floral availability

(2017) Natasha de Vere et al.   Scientific Reports

Environmental DNA in subterranean biology: range extension and taxonomic implications for Proteus

(2017) Špela Gorički et al.   Scientific Reports

Spatial distribution of environmental DNA in a nearshore marine habitat

(2017) James L. O’Donnell et al.   PeerJ

Random sampling causes the low reproducibility of rare eukaryotic OTUs in Illumina COI metabarcoding

(2017) Matthieu Leray et al.   PeerJ

Metazoan mitochondrial gene sequence reference datasets for taxonomic assignment of environmental samples

(2017) Ryuji J. Machida et al.   Scientific Data

Surveying Europe’s Only Cave-Dwelling Chordate Species (Proteus anguinus) Using Environmental DNA

(2017) Judit Vörös et al.   PLoS One

Aquatic environmental DNA detects seasonal fish abundance and habitat preference in an urban estuary

(2017) Mark Y. Stoeckle et al.   PLoS One

Biomonitoring of marine vertebrates in Monterey Bay using eDNA metabarcoding

(2017) Elizabeth A. Andruszkiewicz et al.   PLoS One

Range-wide phylogeographic structure of the vernal pool fairy shrimp (Branchinecta lynchi)

(2017) Kristy Deiner et al.   PLoS One

Environmental DNA metabarcoding reveals local fish communities in a species-rich coastal sea

(2017) Satoshi Yamamoto et al.   Scientific Reports

Molecular analysis of environmental plant DNA in house dust across the United States

(2016) Joseph M. Craine et al.   AEROBIOLOGIA

Risk Analysis and Bioeconomics of Invasive Species to Inform Policy and Management

(2016) David M. Lodge et al.   Annual Review of Environment and Resources

Unbiased probabilistic taxonomic classification for DNA barcoding

(2016) Panu Somervuo et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Comparison of environmental DNA metabarcoding and conventional fish survey methods in a river system

(2016) Jennifer L.A. Shaw et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Active and passive environmental DNA surveillance of aquatic invasive species

(2016) Megan Simmons et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Metabarcoding reveals strong spatial structure and temporal turnover of zooplankton communities among marine and freshwater ports

(2016) Frédéric J. J. Chain et al.   DIVERSITY AND DISTRIBUTIONS

A framework for inferring biological communities from environmental DNA

(2016) Andrew Olaf Shelton et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Environmental DNA analysis for estimating the abundance and biomass of stream fish

(2016) Hideyuki Doi et al.   FRESHWATER BIOLOGY

Pollen DNA barcoding: current applications and future prospects

(2016) Karen L. Bell et al.   GENOME

Improving herpetological surveys in eastern North America using the environmental DNA method

(2016) Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel et al.   GENOME

Climate-induced glacier and snow loss imperils alpine stream insects

(2016) J. Joseph Giersch et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Quantifying relative fish abundance with eDNA: a promising tool for fisheries management

(2016) Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

The change of microbial community from chlorinated solvent-contaminated groundwater after biostimulation using the metagenome analysis

(2016) Chih-Ming Kao et al.   JOURNAL OF HAZARDOUS MATERIALS

Environmental DNA metabarcoding of lake fish communities reflects long-term data from established survey methods

(2016) Bernd Hänfling et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Next-generation monitoring of aquatic biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding

(2016) Alice Valentini et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The importance of including imperfect detection models in eDNA experimental design

(2016) Janna R. Willoughby et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Using occupancy modelling to compare environmental DNA to traditional field methods for regional-scale monitoring of an endangered aquatic species

(2016) Molly C. Schmelzle et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Estimating fish abundance and biomass from eDNA concentrations: variability among capture methods and environmental conditions

(2016) Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Postglacial viability and colonization in North America’s ice-free corridor

(2016) Mikkel W. Pedersen et al.   NATURE

Indexed PCR Primers Induce Template-Specific Bias in Large-Scale DNA Sequencing Studies

(2016) James L. O’Donnell et al.   PLoS One

Large-Scale Monitoring of Plants through Environmental DNA Metabarcoding of Soil: Recovery, Resolution, and Annotation of Four DNA Markers

(2016) Nicole A. Fahner et al.   PLoS One

Emerging Technologies to Conserve Biodiversity: Further Opportunities via Genomics. Response to Pimm et al.

(2016) Helen R. Taylor et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Environmental DNA reveals that rivers are conveyer belts of biodiversity information

(2016) Kristy Deiner et al.   Nature Communications

Comparison of capture and storage methods for aqueous macrobial eDNA using an optimized extraction protocol: advantage of enclosed filter

(2016) Johan Spens et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

PrimerMiner : an r package for development and in silico validation of DNA metabarcoding primers

(2016) Vasco Elbrecht et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Critical considerations for the application of environmental DNA methods to detect aquatic species

(2016) Caren S. Goldberg et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The ecologist's field guide to sequence-based identification of biodiversity

(2016) Simon Creer et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Inferring neutral biodiversity parameters using environmental DNA data sets

(2016) Guilhem Sommeria-Klein et al.   Scientific Reports

Estimating species richness using environmental DNA

(2016) Brett P. Olds et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Spatio-temporal monitoring of deep-sea communities using metabarcoding of sediment DNA and RNA

(2016) Magdalena Guardiola et al.   PeerJ

VSEARCH: a versatile open source tool for metagenomics

(2016) Torbjørn Rognes et al.   PeerJ

Next-generation freshwater bioassessment: eDNA metabarcoding with a conserved metazoan primer reveals species-rich and reservoir-specific communities

(2016) Nicholas K. M. Lim et al.   Royal Society Open Science

Geography and Location Are the Primary Drivers of Office Microbiome Composition

(2016) John Chase et al.   mSystems

Population characteristics of a large whale shark aggregation inferred from seawater environmental DNA

(2016) Eva Egelyng Sigsgaard et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Environmental DNA as a ‘Snapshot’ of Fish Distribution: A Case Study of Japanese Jack Mackerel in Maizuru Bay, Sea of Japan

(2016) Satoshi Yamamoto et al.   PLoS One

Spatial Representativeness of Environmental DNA Metabarcoding Signal for Fish Biodiversity Assessment in a Natural Freshwater System

(2016) Raphaël Civade et al.   PLoS One

Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples Correlate with Trawl Catches of Subarctic, Deepwater Fishes

(2016) Philip Francis Thomsen et al.   PLoS One

A comparison of the wet and dry season DNA-based soil invertebrate community characteristics in large patches of the bromeliad Bromelia pinguin in a primary forest in Costa Rica

(2015) Katie M. McGee et al.   APPLIED SOIL ECOLOGY

Choice of capture and extraction methods affect detection of freshwater biodiversity from environmental DNA

(2015) Kristy Deiner et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Quantification of eDNA shedding rates from invasive bighead carp Hypophthalmichthys nobilis and silver carp Hypophthalmichthys molitrix

(2015) Katy E. Klymus et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Fish environmental DNA is more concentrated in aquatic sediments than surface water

(2015) Cameron R. Turner et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Environmental DNA – An emerging tool in conservation for monitoring past and present biodiversity

(2015) Philip Francis Thomsen et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Using eDNA to develop a national citizen science-based monitoring programme for the great crested newt (Triturus cristatus)

(2015) Jeremy Biggs et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

The ecology of environmental DNA and implications for conservation genetics

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

Rapid Molecular Detection of Invasive Species in Ballast and Harbor Water by Integrating Environmental DNA and Light Transmission Spectroscopy

(2015) Scott P. Egan et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

iDNA from terrestrial haematophagous leeches as a wildlife surveying and monitoring tool – prospects, pitfalls and avenues to be developed

(2015) Ida Bærholm Schnell et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Detecting long-term population trends for an elusive reptile species

(2015) Lori A. Erb et al.   JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Origin, dynamics, and implications of extracellular DNA pools in marine sediments

(2015) Andrea Torti et al.   Marine Genomics

Metabarcoding approach for the ballast water surveillance – An advantageous solution or an awkward challenge?

(2015) Anastasija Zaiko et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Reconstructing long-term human impacts on plant communities: an ecological approach based on lake sediment DNA

(2015) Johan Pansu et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Assessing vertebrate biodiversity in a kelp forest ecosystem using environmental DNA

(2015) Jesse A. Port et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Making environmental DNA count

(2015) Ryan P. Kelly   Molecular Ecology Resources

A framework for estimating the sensitivity of eDNA surveys

(2015) Elise M. Furlan et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Quantification of mesocosm fish and amphibian species diversity via environmental DNA metabarcoding

(2015) Nathan T. Evans et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Targeted gene enrichment and high-throughput sequencing for environmental biomonitoring: a case study using freshwater macroinvertebrates

(2015) Eddy J. Dowle et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

obitools: aunix-inspired software package for DNA metabarcoding

(2015) Frédéric Boyer et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Tag jumps illuminated - reducing sequence-to-sample misidentifications in metabarcoding studies

(2015) Ida Baerholm Schnell et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Landscape-scale distribution patterns of earthworms inferred from soil DNA

(2015) Johan Pansu et al.   SOIL BIOLOGY & BIOCHEMISTRY

Environmental DNA particle size distribution from Brook Trout (Salvelinus fontinalis)

(2015) Taylor M. Wilcox et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

Revealing the unexplored fungal communities in deep groundwater of crystalline bedrock fracture zones in Olkiluoto, Finland

(2015) Elina Sohlberg et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Evaluating a multigene environmental DNA approach for biodiversity assessment

(2015) Alexei J. Drummond et al.   GigaScience

From Benchtop to Desktop: Important Considerations when Designing Amplicon Sequencing Workflows

(2015) Dáithí C. Murray et al.   PLoS One

Environmental DNA (eDNA) Sampling Improves Occurrence and Detection Estimates of Invasive Burmese Pythons

(2015) Margaret E. Hunter et al.   PLoS One

Using DNA Metabarcoding to Identify the Floral Composition of Honey: A New Tool for Investigating Honey Bee Foraging Preferences

(2015) Jennifer Hawkins et al.   PLoS One

Can DNA-Based Ecosystem Assessments Quantify Species Abundance? Testing Primer Bias and Biomass—Sequence Relationships with an Innovative Metabarcoding Protocol

(2015) Vasco Elbrecht et al.   PLoS One

Spider Web DNA: A New Spin on Noninvasive Genetics of Predator and Prey

(2015) Charles C. Y. Xu et al.   PLoS One

Large-Scale Biomonitoring of Remote and Threatened Ecosystems via High-Throughput Sequencing

(2015) Joel F. Gibson et al.   PLoS One

DNA metabarcoding and the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I marker: not a perfect match

(2014) B. E. Deagle et al.   Biology Letters

Minimum entropy decomposition: Unsupervised oligotyping for sensitive partitioning of high-throughput marker gene sequences

(2014) A Murat Eren et al.   ISME Journal

Environmental DNA surveillance for invertebrate species: advantages and technical limitations to detect invasive crayfishProcambarus clarkiiin freshwater ponds

(2014) Anne Tréguier et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

REVIEW: The detection of aquatic animal species using environmental DNA - a review of eDNA as a survey tool in ecology

(2014) Helen C. Rees et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Universal and blocking primer mismatches limit the use of high-throughput DNA sequencing for the quantitative metabarcoding of arthropods

(2014) J. Piñol et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Efficient and sensitive identification and quantification of airborne pollen using next-generation DNA sequencing

(2014) Ken Kraaijeveld et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Replication levels, false presences and the estimation of the presence/absence from eDNA metabarcoding data

(2014) Gentile F. Ficetola et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

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

(2014) Jan Pawlowski et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

The room temperature preservation of filtered environmental DNA samples and assimilation into a phenol-chloroform-isoamyl alcohol DNA extraction

(2014) Mark A. Renshaw et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Fifty thousand years of Arctic vegetation and megafaunal diet

(2014) Eske Willerslev et al.   NATURE

Ancient and modern environmental DNA

(2014) Mikkel Winther Pedersen et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Transport Distance of Invertebrate Environmental DNA in a Natural River

(2014) Kristy Deiner et al.   PLoS One

Assessing Environmental DNA Detection in Controlled Lentic Systems

(2014) Gregory R. Moyer et al.   PLoS One

Persistence of DNA in Carcasses, Slime and Avian Feces May Affect Interpretation of Environmental DNA Data

(2014) Christopher M. Merkes et al.   PLoS One

Simultaneous assessment of the macrobiome and microbiome in a bulk sample of tropical arthropods through DNA metasystematics

(2014) J. Gibson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Global diversity and geography of soil fungi

(2014) L. Tedersoo et al.   SCIENCE

Harnessing DNA to improve environmental management

(2014) R. P. Kelly et al.   SCIENCE

Long livestock farming history and human landscape shaping revealed by lake sediment DNA

(2014) Charline Giguet-Covex et al.   Nature Communications

Meta-genomic surveillance of invasive species in the bait trade

(2014) Andrew R. Mahon et al.   Conservation Genetics Resources

Effects of phylogenetic reconstruction method on the robustness of species delimitation using single-locus data

(2014) Cuong Q. Tang et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Particle size distribution and optimal capture of aqueous macrobial eDNA

(2014) Cameron R. Turner et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

The application of eDNA for monitoring of the Great Crested Newt in the UK

(2014) Helen C. Rees et al.   Ecology and Evolution

Swarm: robust and fast clustering method for amplicon-based studies

(2014) Frédéric Mahé et al.   PeerJ

Ancient DNA complements microfossil record in deep-sea subsurface sediments

(2013) F. Lejzerowicz et al.   Biology Letters

Estimating occupancy and abundance of stream amphibians using environmental DNA from filtered water samples

(2013) David S. Pilliod et al.   CANADIAN JOURNAL OF FISHERIES AND AQUATIC SCIENCES

Biota as toxic metal indicators

(2013) Slavka Stankovic et al.   Environmental Chemistry Letters

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

Molecular- and pollen-based vegetation analysis in lake sediments from central Scandinavia

(2013) Laura Parducci et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Carrion fly-derived DNA as a tool for comprehensive and cost-effective assessment of mammalian biodiversity

(2013) Sébastien Calvignac-Spencer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

DNA metabarcoding multiplexing and validation of data accuracy for diet assessment: application to omnivorous diet

(2013) M. De Barba et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Using Environmental DNA to Estimate the Distribution of an Invasive Fish Species in Ponds

(2013) Teruhiko Takahara et al.   PLoS One

Thorough assessment of DNA preservation from fossil bone and sediments excavated from a late Pleistocene–Holocene cave deposit on Kangaroo Island, South Australia

(2013) Dalal Haouchar et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Rapid Invasive Species Detection by Combining Environmental DNA with Light Transmission Spectroscopy

(2013) Scott P. Egan et al.   Conservation Letters

Site occupancy models in the analysis of environmental DNA presence/absence surveys: a case study of an emerging amphibian pathogen

(2013) Benedikt R. Schmidt et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Environmental DNA as a new method for early detection of New Zealand mudsnails (Potamopyrgus antipodarum)

(2013) Caren S. Goldberg et al.   Freshwater Science

Ten Simple Rules for Reproducible Computational Research

(2013) Geir Kjetil Sandve et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

A comparative evaluation of sequence classification programs

(2012) Adam L Bazinet et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Screening mammal biodiversity using DNA from leeches

(2012) Ida Bærholm Schnell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Applications and techniques for non-invasive faecal genetics research in felid conservation

(2012) Torrey W. Rodgers et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE RESEARCH

Tracking earthworm communities from soil DNA

(2012) FRIEDERIKE BIENERT et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bioinformatic challenges for DNA metabarcoding of plants and animals

(2012) ERIC COISSAC et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

DNA from soil mirrors plant taxonomic and growth form diversity

(2012) N. G. YOCCOZ et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Environmental DNA

(2012) PIERRE TABERLET et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Soil sampling and isolation of extracellular DNA from large amount of starting material suitable for metabarcoding studies

(2012) PIERRE TABERLET et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Towards next-generation biodiversity assessment using DNA metabarcoding

(2012) PIERRE TABERLET et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Browsed twig environmental DNA: diagnostic PCR to identify ungulate species

(2012) RUTH V. NICHOLS et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Biodiversity loss and its impact on humanity

(2012) Bradley J. Cardinale et al.   NATURE

Performance comparison of benchtop high-throughput sequencing platforms

(2012) Nicholas J Loman et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Quality-filtering vastly improves diversity estimates from Illumina amplicon sequencing

(2012) Nicholas A Bokulich et al.   NATURE METHODS

Next-generation sequencing data interpretation: enhancing reproducibility and accessibility

(2012) Anton Nekrutenko et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

GenBank

(2012) Dennis A. Benson et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The Protist Ribosomal Reference database (PR2): a catalog of unicellular eukaryote Small Sub-Unit rRNA sequences with curated taxonomy

(2012) Laure Guillou et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The SILVA ribosomal RNA gene database project: improved data processing and web-based tools

(2012) Christian Quast et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

High-Resolution Coproecology: Using Coprolites to Reconstruct the Habits and Habitats of New Zealand’s Extinct Upland Moa (Megalapteryx didinus)

(2012) Jamie R. Wood et al.   PLoS One

Investigating the Potential Use of Environmental DNA (eDNA) for Genetic Monitoring of Marine Mammals

(2012) Andrew D. Foote et al.   PLoS One

Detection of a Diverse Marine Fish Fauna Using Environmental DNA from Seawater Samples

(2012) Philip Francis Thomsen et al.   PLoS One

High-throughput sequencing of ancient plant and mammal DNA preserved in herbivore middens

(2012) Dáithí C. Murray et al.   QUATERNARY SCIENCE REVIEWS

Sequencing our way towards understanding global eukaryotic biodiversity

(2012) Holly M. Bik et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Barcoded Primers Used in Multiplex Amplicon Pyrosequencing Bias Amplification

(2011) David Berry et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Clustering 16S rRNA for OTU prediction: a method of unsupervised Bayesian clustering

(2011) Xiaolin Hao et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

UCHIME improves sensitivity and speed of chimera detection

(2011) Robert C. Edgar et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Ancient DNA from lake sediments: Bridging the gap between paleoecology and genetics

(2011) Lynn L Anderson-Carpenter et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Chimeric 16S rRNA sequence formation and detection in Sanger and 454-pyrosequenced PCR amplicons

(2011) B. J. Haas et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Estimating survival of a streamside salamander: importance of temporary emigration, capture response, and location

(2011) Steven J. Price et al.   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Surveillance of fish species composition using environmental DNA

(2011) Toshifumi Minamoto et al.   LIMNOLOGY

Meta-barcoding of ‘dirt’ DNA from soil reflects vertebrate biodiversity

(2011) KENNETH ANDERSEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Monitoring endangered freshwater biodiversity using environmental DNA

(2011) PHILIP FRANCIS THOMSEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Islands in the ice: detecting past vegetation on Greenlandic nunataks using historical records and sedimentary ancient DNA Meta-barcoding

(2011) TINA JØRGENSEN et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications

(2011) Pelin Yilmaz et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

jMOTU and Taxonerator: Turning DNA Barcode Sequences into Annotated Operational Taxonomic Units

(2011) Martin Jones et al.   PLoS One

Environmental Barcoding: A Next-Generation Sequencing Approach for Biomonitoring Applications Using River Benthos

(2011) Mehrdad Hajibabaei et al.   PLoS One

“Sight-unseen” detection of rare aquatic species using environmental DNA

(2011) Christopher L. Jerde et al.   Conservation Letters

Search and clustering orders of magnitude faster than BLAST

(2010) Robert C. Edgar   BIOINFORMATICS

pplacer: linear time maximum-likelihood and Bayesian phylogenetic placement of sequences onto a fixed reference tree

(2010) Frederick A Matsen et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Using next-generation sequencing for molecular reconstruction of past Arctic vegetation and climate

(2010) J. H. SØNSTEBØ et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

Global threats to human water security and river biodiversity

(2010) C. J. Vörösmarty et al.   NATURE

QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

(2010) J Gregory Caporaso et al.   NATURE METHODS

The UNITE database for molecular identification of fungi - recent updates and future perspectives

(2010) Kessy Abarenkov et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Validation of the ITS2 Region as a Novel DNA Barcode for Identifying Medicinal Plant Species

(2010) Shilin Chen et al.   PLoS One

Global patterns of 16S rRNA diversity at a depth of millions of sequences per sample

(2010) J. G. Caporaso et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Assessing Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity in Freshwater Ecosystems: Advances and Challenges in DNA-based Approaches

(2010) Michael E. Pfrender et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Global Biodiversity: Indicators of Recent Declines

(2010) S. H. M. Butchart et al.   SCIENCE

Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities

(2009) P. D. Schloss et al.   APPLIED AND ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

TACOA – Taxonomic classification of environmental genomic fragments using a kernelized nearest neighbor approach

(2009) Naryttza N Diaz et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

BLAST+: architecture and applications

(2009) Christiam Camacho et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Wrinkles in the rare biosphere: pyrosequencing errors can lead to artificial inflation of diversity estimates

(2009) Victor Kunin et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Ancient DNA reveals late survival of mammoth and horse in interior Alaska

(2009) James Haile et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A DNA barcode for land plants

(2009) et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Error Cascades in the Biological Sciences: The Unwanted Consequences of Using Bad Taxonomy in Ecology

(2008) Alejandro Bortolus   AMBIO

Species detection using environmental DNA from water samples

(2008) G. F. Ficetola et al.   Biology Letters

Data quality, performance, and uncertainty in taxonomic identification for biological assessments

(2008) James B. Stribling et al.   JOURNAL OF THE NORTH AMERICAN BENTHOLOGICAL SOCIETY

The Ribosomal Database Project: improved alignments and new tools for rRNA analysis

(2008) J. R. Cole et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

The footprint of pesticide stress in communities—Species traits reveal community effects of toxicants

(2008) Matthias Liess et al.   SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT

Statistical Assignment of DNA Sequences Using Bayesian Phylogenetics

(2008) Kasper Munch et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

DNA barcoding for ecologists

(2008) Alice Valentini et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

PCR to predict risk of airborne disease

(2008) Jon S. West et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY