Fish and Benthic Invertebrates on the Coast of Central Peru (by Luciano Pastorelli Bravo)
My project is focused on revealing fish and benthic invertebrate diversity by applying eDNA metabarcoding on water and sediment samples. […]
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The ghost of past interactions: a reconstruction of plankton community dynamics throughout the history of the Baltic Sea (by Diego Brambilla)
Current climate change is a major threat to marine biodiversity with severe effects on marine ecosystem function and stability. Phytoplankton,
Metabarcoding for My Master’s: Lab Lessons in Confidence and Humility (by Eliza Stein)
I fear laboratory work in the way my 87-year-old grandmother fears her iPhone: everyone tells me it isn’t that hard,
Parsing Signal from Noise in Metabarcoding Data Reloaded (Zack Gold)
A Meandering Journey Towards the Source of Zeros A few years ago, we started running triplicate technical PCR replicates for
Exploring Alternatives to SPRI Beads (Eily Allan)
An important step in many molecular biology protocols (including eDNA metabarcoding) is purifying and size-selecting DNA or PCR products. In
New Site, New Home
As we are getting the eDNA Collaborative set up, we have decided this is a better home for the eDNA
Legend of Zeta (Zack Gold)
A key aspect of ecology is trying to compare the communities of species between different sites to answer the seemingly
One Apple, One Orange (Ryan Kelly)
As eDNA datasets have become more common, a frequent and reasonable step for many applications is to compare some eDNA
How much is environmental DNA information worth? (Ryan Kelly)
A really practical question for eDNA is: so what? So I can detect all kinds of species in the world