Against the accelerating pace of worldwide species extinction, reliable biodiversity assessments are critical, both as baselines and to track potential declines. DNA metabarcoding techniques allow for ...

The ongoing decline in pollinators and increasing concerns about pollination services require a better understanding of complex pollination networks, particularly their response to global climate ...

Japan develops new ways of monitoring fish biodiversity and assemblage Researchers from Kyoto University, Ryukyu University, Kobe University, and the Natural History Museum and Institute of Chiba have ...

The following information was supplied regarding data availability: Scripts are available as Supplemental Files, and the metabarcoding pipeline is available at GitHub ...

Metabarcoding diet analysis has become a valuable tool in animal ecology; however, co-amplified predator sequences are not generally used for anything other than to validate predator identity.

High-throughput DNA sequencing methods are revolutionizing our ability to census communities, but most analyses have focused on microbes. Using an environmental DNA sequencing approach based on ...

A new study demonstrates that DNA metabarcoding provides a promising new method for tracking human plant intake, suggesting that similar approaches could be used to characterize the animal and fungal ...

This repository contains the code for pre-processing metabarcoding data with OBITools v.1.2.12 on Brown's high-performance cluster (HPC), OSCAR via an RStudio Server. The code could be adapted to run ...

A pipeline and tutorial to analyze metabarcoding data using pears and fastx-collapser with a limited local reference database. It is intended to be an analysis guide for students working on their own ...