Pedro F. P. Brandão‐Dias

The paper shows that environmental RNA, CpG methylation, and bulk DNA differ in persistence, affecting the reliability of molecular signals in water samples.

This paper uses eDNA sequencing to show that genetic material moves between water and air, revealing a continuous ecological interface and offering new monitoring approaches for vertebrates.

The paper combines qPCR and metabarcoding to estimate eDNA quantities for multiple fish species, creating spatial maps that align with known ecological niches and identify biodiversity hotspots.

The paper tracks the decay of multiple environmental nucleic acid components from a cetacean in seawater, finding distinct degradation rates and suggesting their use as a molecular clock for eNA age estimation.

The paper estimates organism abundance from eDNA metabarcoding data by analyzing haplotype frequency deviations within samples.