Environmental DNA (eDNA) is the fastest growing biomonitoring tool fuelled by two key
features: time efficiency and sensitivity. Technological advancements allow rapid …

Conserving biodiversity in the face of ever-increasing human pressure is hampered by our
lack of basic information on species occurrence, distribution, abundance, habitat …

Most of arthropod biodiversity is unknown to science. Consequently, it has been unclear
whether insect communities around the world are dominated by the same or different taxa …

The genomic revolution has fundamentally changed how we survey biodiversity on earth.
High‐throughput sequencing (“HTS”) platforms now enable the rapid sequencing of DNA …

Assessment of biodiversity using metabarcoding data, such as from bulk or environmental
DNA sampling, is becoming increasingly relevant in ecology, biodiversity sciences and …

Background DNA barcodes are a useful tool for discovering, understanding, and monitoring
biodiversity which are critical tasks at a time of rapid biodiversity loss. However, widespread …

Multiple sequence alignment is a prerequisite for many evolutionary analyses. Multiple
Alignment of Coding Sequences (MACSE) is a multiple sequence alignment program that …

The bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems is currently based on various biotic indices that
use the occurrence and/or abundance of selected taxonomic groups to define ecological …

Metabarcoding of environmental samples has many challenges and limitations that require
carefully considered laboratory and analysis workflows to ensure reliable results. We …

This book represents a synthesis of knowledge and best practice in the field of DNA-based
biomonitoring at the time of writing. It has been written with end-users of molecular tools in …