Daniel Simberloff, Jean‐Louis Martin, Piero Genovesi, Virginie Maris et al.
Study of the impacts of biological invasions, a pervasive component of global change, has generated remarkable understanding of the mechanisms and consequences of the spread of introduced populations. The growing field of invasion science, poised at a crossroads where ecology, social sciences, resou...
Doug P. Armstrong, P. J. Seddon
Reintroductions are attempts to return species to parts of their historical ranges where they were extirpated, and might involve release of either captive-bred or wild-caught individuals. The poor success rate of reintroductions worldwide has led to frequent calls for greater monitoring, and since 1...
Laura S. Epp, Sanne Boessenkool, Eva Bellemain, James Haile et al.
Metabarcoding approaches use total and typically degraded DNA from environmental samples to analyse biotic assemblages and can potentially be carried out for any kinds of organisms in an ecosystem. These analyses rely on specific markers, here called metabarcodes, which should be optimized for taxon...
Stefano Mammola, Pedro Cardoso, David C. Culver, Louis Deharveng et al.
Abstract In light of recent alarming trends in human population growth, climate change, and other environmental modifications, a “Warning to humanity” manifesto was published in BioScience in 2017. This call reiterated most of the ideas originally expressed by the Union of Concerned Scientists in 19...
Peter E. Jones, Jeroen S. Tummers, Shams M. Galib, Darragh J. Woodford et al.
Aquatic invasive species (AIS) are one of the principal threats to freshwater biodiversity. Exclusion barriers are increasingly being used as a management strategy to control the spread of AIS. However, exclusion barriers can also impact native organisms and their effectiveness is likely to be conte...
Tanvir Hossain, Golam Mahmudunnabi, Mostafa Kamal Masud, Md. Nazmul Islam et al.
DNA methylation is one of the key epigenetic modifications of DNA that results from the enzymatic addition of a methyl group at the fifth carbon of the cytosine base. It plays a crucial role in cellular development, genomic stability and gene expression. Aberrant DNA methylation is responsible for t...
Shyama Pagad, Stewart Bisset, Piero Genovesi, Quentin Groom et al.
The Country Compendium of the Global Register of Introduced and Invasive Species (GRIIS) is a collation of data across 196 individual country checklists of alien species, along with a designation of those species with evidence of impact at a country level. The Compendium provides a baseline for moni...
Michael Tessler, Sarah R. Weiskopf, Lily Berniker, Rebecca Hersch et al.
Southern Asia is a biodiversity hotspot both for terrestrial mammals and for leeches. Many small-mammal groups are under-studied in this region, while other mammals are of known conservation concern. In addition to standard methods for surveying mammals, it has recently been demonstrated that residu...
Michelle A. Peck, Kimberly Sturk‐Andreaggi, Jacqueline Tyler Thomas, Robert S. Oliver et al.
Generating mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) data from reference samples in a rapid and efficient manner is critical to harnessing the greater power of discrimination of the entire mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) marker. The method of long-range target enrichment, Nextera XT library preparation, and Illum...
Yufeng Mao, Yi Liu, Hong Li, Qiang He et al.
Anthropogenic activities can cause serious negative effects on ecosystems. Despite the ecological significance of bacterial communities, the integrated biogeography of planktonic and sedimentary bacterial communities in response to anthropogenic activities is not adequately understood. Here, we exam...
Md Maniruzzaman Sikder, Mette Vestergård, Rumakanta Sapkota, Tina Kyndt et al.
While recent advances in next-generation sequencing technologies have accelerated research in microbial ecology, the application of high throughput approaches to study the ecology of nematodes remains unresolved due to several issues, e.g., whether to include an initial nematode extraction step or n...
Md. Shamsuzzoha Bayzid, Tandy Warnow
Species tree estimation from gene trees can be complicated by gene duplication and loss, and “gene tree parsimony” (GTP) is one approach for estimating species trees from multiple gene trees. In its standard formulation, the objective is to find a species tree that minimizes the total number of gene...
Sudeepto Saha, Yusha Araf, Salman Khan Promon
BACKGROUND: Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) has become one of the crucial components for cancer detection with the increase of precision medicine practice. ctDNA has great potential as a blood-based biomarker for the detection and treatment of cancer in its early stages. The purpose of this article wa...
Michael F. Proctor, David L. Garshelis, Prachi Thatte, Robert Steinmetz et al.
Efficient and effective monitoring methods are required to assess population status and gauge efficacy of conservation actions for threatened species. Here we review the spectrum of field methods useful for monitoring distribution, occupancy, abundance, and population trend for the five species of A...
Alison K. S. Wee, Severino G. Salmo, Kannan Sivakumar, Amy Y-H Then et al.
Species detection using environmental DNA (eDNA) is a biomonitoring tool that can be widely applied to mangrove restoration and management. Compared to traditional surveys that are taxa-specific and time-consuming, eDNA metabarcoding offers a rapid, non-invasive and cost-efficient method for monitor...