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

K Deiner, HM Bik, E Mächler, M Seymour… - Molecular …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The genomic revolution has fundamentally changed how we survey biodiversity on earth.
High‐throughput sequencing (“HTS”) platforms now enable the rapid sequencing of DNA …

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

PF Thomsen, E Willerslev - Biological conservation, 2015 - Elsevier
The continuous decline in Earth's biodiversity represents a major crisis and challenge for the
21st century, and there is international political agreement to slow down or halt this decline …

Methods to maximise recovery of environmental DNA from water samples

R Hinlo, D Gleeson, M Lintermans, E Furlan - PloS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The environmental DNA (eDNA) method is a detection technique that is rapidly gaining
credibility as a sensitive tool useful in the surveillance and monitoring of invasive and …

Ancient and modern environmental DNA

MW Pedersen… - … of the Royal …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
DNA obtained from environmental samples such as sediments, ice or water (environmental
DNA, eDNA), represents an important source of information on past and present biodiversity …

Ancient plant DNA in lake sediments

L Parducci, KD Bennett, GF Ficetola, IG Alsos… - New …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Contents Summary 924 I. Introduction 925 II. Environmental and temporal limits for survival
of aDNA 925 III. Lake sediments 927 IV. Perspective for plant aDNA research 929 V …

Temperature dependence of metabolic rates for microbial growth, maintenance, and survival

PB Price, T Sowers - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2004 - National Acad Sciences
Our work was motivated by discoveries of prokaryotic communities that survive with little
nutrient in ice and permafrost, with implications for past or present microbial life in Martian …

Diverse plant and animal genetic records from Holocene and Pleistocene sediments

E Willerslev, AJ Hansen, J Binladen, TB Brand… - Science, 2003 - science.org
Genetic analyses of permafrost and temperate sediments reveal that plant and animal DNA
may be preserved for long periods, even in the absence of obvious macrofossils. In Siberia …

Ancient dna

E Willerslev, A Cooper - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2005 - royalsocietypublishing.org
In the past two decades, ancient DNA research has progressed from the retrieval of small
fragments of mitochondrial DNA from a few late Holocene specimens, to large-scale studies …

Forensic implications of genetic analyses from degraded DNA—a review

R Alaeddini, SJ Walsh, A Abbas - Forensic science international: genetics, 2010 - Elsevier
Forensic DNA identification techniques are principally based on determination of the size or
sequence of desired PCR products. The fragmentation of DNA templates or the structural …

Glacial ecosystems

A Hodson, AM Anesio, M Tranter… - Ecological …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
There is now compelling evidence that microbially mediated reactions impart a significant
effect upon the dynamics, composition, and abundance of nutrients in glacial melt water …