Teresita M. Porter

Across 31 jack pine sites, clearcut soil bacteria converge with post-wildfire communities by crown closure, fungi do not, and salvage-logged communities stay distinct for ~20 years.

MetaWorks provides a bioinformatic pipeline for processing multi-marker metabarcoding data across different domains of life, supporting various markers and taxonomic assignments.

The paper uses DNA metabarcoding to detect environmental gradients in an urban harbour, showing greater variation in species rank assessments compared to morphological methods.

The paper develops a method using HMM profile analysis to identify and remove pseudogenes from COI metabarcode datasets, improving accuracy in DNA barcoding.

This study tests if benthic kick-net sampling can be used for diatom metabarcoding, finding it comparable to traditional scraping methods and suitable for ecological monitoring.

This study compares propylene glycol-based antifreeze and ethanol as preservatives for DNA metabarcoding of benthic arthropods, finding antifreeze provides similar taxonomic coverage with simpler processing.

This study shows that COI primer choice affects arthropod richness and indicator taxa recovery in freshwater samples, suggesting multiple primer sets should be used for maximum diversity detection.

The paper develops a method to classify animal DNA metabarcodes more efficiently and accurately using a large reference database and the RDP naive Bayesian classifier.