Analyses of sedimentary DNA (sedDNA) have increased exponentially over the last decade
and hold great potential to study the effects of anthropogenic stressors on lake biota over …

Human impacts on Earth's atmosphere, hydrosphere, litosphere and biosphere are so
significant as to naming a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene. Lakes and their biota …

Introduction The soil microbial community plays an important role in modulating cotton soil
fertility. However, the effects of chemical fertilizer combined with organic fertilizer on soil …

Prostomatean ciliates inhabit a wide range of aquatic environments and serve as a trophic
link in food webs. However, the biodiversity and molecular phylogeny of the Prostomatea …

Despite efforts from scientists and regulators, biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate.
Unless we find transformative solutions to preserve biodiversity, future generations may not …

Understanding the long-term response of key marine phytoplankton species to ongoing
global changes is pivotal in determining how oceanic community composition will respond …

Hitherto, the phylogeny of ciliated protists, an important group of model organisms in many
fields, has been mainly based on a single marker gene (SSU rDNA, nuclear small subunit …

By deciphering information encoded in degraded ancient DNA extracted from up to million‐
years‐old samples, molecular paleomicrobiology enables to objectively retrace the temporal …

For over two decades, ancient DNA (aDNA) from various organisms has been successfully
recovered from lake sediments from all over the world, ranging from decades to hundreds of …

Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) offers an important opportunity for investigating long-
term community dynamics. Nevertheless, sedaDNA is challenging since DNA is degraded …