Bettina Thalinger

This paper develops a method to identify molecular sex and mitochondrial haplotypes from environmental DNA samples, achieving high concordance with tissue samples and resolving lineage-level genetic diversity.

The paper introduces a new primer pair (BirT) for avian eDNA metabarcoding, demonstrating its effectiveness in detecting bird species from water samples with high specificity and taxonomic resolution.

This study compares the sensitivity of endpoint PCR with capillary electrophoresis (celPCR) to digital PCR (dPCR) for quantifying environmental DNA in singleplex and multiplex reactions.

The paper introduces a 5-level validation scale to assess the readiness of eDNA assays for species monitoring, showing most assays are inadequately validated.