Next-generation environmental diversity surveys of foraminifera: preparing the future

J Pawlowski, F Lejzerowicz… - The Biological Bulletin, 2014 - journals.uchicago.edu
Foraminifera are commonly defined as marine testate protists, and their diversity is mainly
assessed on the basis of the morphology of their agglutinated or mineralized tests. Diversity …

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

SA Wood, L Biessy, JL Latchford, A Zaiko… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Over the last decade, there has been growing interest in the analysis of environmental DNA
(eDNA) to infer the presence of organisms in aquatic environments. The efficacy of …

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

X Pochon, A Zaiko, LM Fletcher, O Laroche, SA Wood - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
High-throughput sequencing metabarcoding studies in marine biosecurity have largely
focused on targeting environmental DNA (eDNA). DNA can persist extracellularly in the …

Drivers of benthic extinction during the early Toarcian (Early Jurassic) at the northern Gondwana paleomargin: implications for paleoceanographic conditions

W Ruebsam, M Reolid, A Marok, L Schwark - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
During the early Toarcian multiple environmental perturbations led to the genesis of the
Toarcian Oceanic Anoxic Event (T-OAE), expressed by the widespread occurrence of black …

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 …

Development and preliminary validation of a multi-trophic metabarcoding biotic index for monitoring benthic organic enrichment

N Keeley, SA Wood, X Pochon - Ecological Indicators, 2018 - Elsevier
Sea-based fish farms are associated with strong, benthic enrichment gradients and routine
monitoring is usually required by regulation. This has traditionally been based on benthic …

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

A Zaiko, U von Ammon, J Stuart… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Growing interest and affordability of environmental DNA and RNA (eDNA and eRNA)
approaches for biodiversity assessments and monitoring of complex ecosystems have led to …

[HTML][HTML] Linking environmental DNA and RNA for improved detection of the marine invasive fanworm Sabella spallanzanii

U Von Ammon, SA Wood, O Laroche… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Environmental DNA is increasingly being used in marine invasive species surveillance
despite the inability to discriminate between contemporary intracellular (ie living) and …

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 …

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 …