Sten Anslan

The paper identifies 25 novel phyla in the eukaryotic tree of life through global environmental DNA surveys and proposes formal names for 150 species.

The paper introduces the ecological multiverse framework to model fungal ecological roles as a network, revealing plant pathogenicity as a central hub connecting diverse functions.

This study compares COI barcode lengths in eDNA metabarcoding, finding that 658 bp is optimal for balancing accuracy and ecological interpretation.

The paper benchmarks full-length ITS metabarcoding across Illumina, PacBio, and Oxford Nanopore platforms using mock and soil communities, finding PacBio has the lowest error rate and recommends standard pipelines for biodiversity assessments.

The paper introduces CORAL, a transfer learning method that improves prediction and inference for rare species using DNA metabarcoding data from Madagascar.