Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has gained growing attention as a strategy for
monitoring biodiversity in ecology. However, taxa identifications produced through …

Marinas are high-priority targets for marine non-indigenous species (NIS), where they
compose a large portion of the biofouling communities. The practicality of water samples …

Molecular techniques using DNA retrieved from community or environmental samples, in
particular environmental DNA (eDNA), are becoming increasingly popular for detecting …

Chinese dry fermented sausage is a spontaneously fermented food with complex microbial
diversity. In this study, the bacterial diversity of long-and round-type Chinese dry fermented …

Clustering approaches are pivotal to handle the many sequence variants obtained in DNA
metabarcoding data sets, and therefore they have become a key step of metabarcoding …

Background. Broad-scale monitoring of arthropods is often carried out with passive traps
(eg, Malaise traps) that can collect thousands of specimens per sample. The identification of …

Assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem status can benefit from DNA metabarcoding as a
means to streamline sample processing and specimen identification. Moreover, processing …

Landscape genetics is a field dealing with local genetic differences and contributes to
strategic conservation planning. Recently, environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has …

Simple Summary Masu salmon (Oncorhynchus masou), a commercially important fish
endemic to the North Pacific Ocean, received national second-level protected animal status …

Background Broad-scale monitoring of arthropods is often carried out with passive traps (eg.
Malaise traps) that can collect thousands of specimens per sample. The identification of …