Lake sedimentary DNA research on past terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity: Overview and recommendations

E Capo, C Giguet-Covex, A Rouillard, K Nota… - Quaternary, 2021 - mdpi.com
The use of lake sedimentary DNA to track the long-term changes in both terrestrial and
aquatic biota is a rapidly advancing field in paleoecological research. Although largely …

Prospects and challenges of implementing DNA metabarcoding for high-throughput insect surveillance

AM Piper, J Batovska, NOI Cogan, J Weiss… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Trap-based surveillance strategies are widely used for monitoring of invasive insect species,
aiming to detect newly arrived exotic taxa as well as track the population levels of …

Microbiome definition re-visited: old concepts and new challenges

G Berg, D Rybakova, D Fischer, T Cernava… - Microbiome, 2020 - Springer
The field of microbiome research has evolved rapidly over the past few decades and has
become a topic of great scientific and public interest. As a result of this rapid growth in …

Biases in bulk: DNA metabarcoding of marine communities and the methodology involved

LM van der Loos, R Nijland - Molecular Ecology, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
With the growing anthropogenic pressure on marine ecosystems, the need for efficient
monitoring of biodiversity grows stronger. DNA metabarcoding of bulk samples is …

A global microbiome survey of vineyard soils highlights the microbial dimension of viticultural terroirs

A Gobbi, A Acedo, N Imam, RG Santini… - Communications …, 2022 - nature.com
The microbial biodiversity found in different vitivinicultural regions is an important
determinant of wine terroir. It should be studied and preserved, although it may, in the future …

Seed microbiota revealed by a large‐scale meta‐analysis including 50 plant species

M Simonin, M Briand, G Chesneau… - New …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Seed microbiota constitutes a primary inoculum for plants that is gaining attention owing to
its role for plant health and productivity. Here, we performed a meta‐analysis on 63 seed …

A pile of pipelines: An overview of the bioinformatics software for metabarcoding data analyses

A Hakimzadeh, A Abdala Asbun… - Molecular Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has gained growing attention as a strategy for
monitoring biodiversity in ecology. However, taxa identifications produced through …

The diversity and distribution of endophytes across biomes, plant phylogeny and host tissues: how far have we come and where do we go from here?

JG Harrison, EA Griffin - Environmental microbiology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The interiors of plants are colonized by diverse microorganisms that are referred to as
endophytes. Endophytes have received much attention over the past few decades, yet many …

Daring to be differential: metabarcoding analysis of soil and plant-related microbial communities using amplicon sequence variants and operational taxonomical units

L Joos, S Beirinckx, A Haegeman, J Debode… - BMC genomics, 2020 - Springer
Background Microorganisms are not only indispensable to ecosystem functioning, they are
also keystones for emerging technologies. In the last 15 years, the number of studies on …

Advancing biological invasion hypothesis testing using functional diversity indices

D Renault, MCM Hess, J Braschi, RN Cuthbert… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Pioneering investigations on the effects of introduced populations on community structure,
ecosystem functioning and services have focused on the effects of invaders on taxonomic …