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Reproduction influences seasonal eDNA variation in a temperate marine fish community (2022)
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Collins, R. A., Baillie, C., Halliday, N. C., Rainbird, S., Sims, D. W., Mariani, S., & Genner, M. J. (in press). Reproduction influences seasonal eDNA variation in a temperate marine fish community. Limnology and Oceanography Letters, 7(5), 443-449. https://doi.org/10.1002/lol2.10271

Many factors influence how environmental DNA (eDNA) abundance varies in natural environments. One of the least studied contributors to eDNA variation is that of reproduction. Marine organisms that broadcast spawn are expected to shed increased quanti... Read More about Reproduction influences seasonal eDNA variation in a temperate marine fish community.

Environmental DNA captures elasmobranch diversity in a temperate marine ecosystem (2022)
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Liu, Z., Collins, R. A., Baillie, C., Rainbird, S., Brittain, R., Griffiths, A. M., …Genner, M. J. (2022). Environmental DNA captures elasmobranch diversity in a temperate marine ecosystem. Environmental DNA, 4(5), 1024-1038. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.294

Abstract: Many sharks, skates, and rays (elasmobranchs) are highly threatened by the activities of commercial fisheries, and a clear understanding of their distributions, diversity, and abundance can guide protective measures. However, surveying and... Read More about Environmental DNA captures elasmobranch diversity in a temperate marine ecosystem.

Biodiversity assessment of tropical shelf eukaryotic communities via pelagic eDNA metabarcoding (2019)
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Bakker, J., Wangensteen Fuentes, O., Baillie, C., Buddo, D., Chapman, D., Gallagher, A., …Mariani, S. (2019). Biodiversity assessment of tropical shelf eukaryotic communities via pelagic eDNA metabarcoding. Ecology and Evolution, 9(24), 14341-14355. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5871

Our understanding of marine communities and their functions in an ecosystem relies on the ability to detect and monitor species distributions and abundances. Currently, the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is increasingly being applied f... Read More about Biodiversity assessment of tropical shelf eukaryotic communities via pelagic eDNA metabarcoding.

Sponges as natural environmental DNA samplers (2019)
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Mariani, S., Baillie, C., Colosimo, G., & Riesgo, A. (2019). Sponges as natural environmental DNA samplers. Current Biology, 29(11), R401-R402. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.04.031

At a time of unprecedented impacts on marine biodiversity, scientists are rapidly becoming persuaded by the potential of screening large swathes of the oceans through the retrieval, amplification and sequencing of trace DNA fragments left behind by m... Read More about Sponges as natural environmental DNA samplers.

Improvements in the fossil record may largely resolve current conflicts between morphological and molecular estimates of mammal phylogeny (2018)
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Beck, R., & Baillie, C. (2018). Improvements in the fossil record may largely resolve current conflicts between morphological and molecular estimates of mammal phylogeny. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1893), 20181632. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1632

Phylogenies of mammals based on morphological data continue to show several major areas of conflict with the current consensus view of their relationships, which is based largely on molecular data. This raises doubts as to whether current morphologic... Read More about Improvements in the fossil record may largely resolve current conflicts between morphological and molecular estimates of mammal phylogeny.