Max Janse

The long and the short of it: Nanopore based eDNA metabarcoding of marine vertebrates works; sensitivity and specificity depend on amplicon lengths

This paper compares nanopore-based eDNA metabarcoding using 2kb and 170bp amplicons for marine fish species identification, finding that longer amplicons improve taxonomic resolution in controlled settings but yield fewer species in field samples.

What's left in the tank? Identification of non-ascribed aquarium's coral collections with DNA barcodes as part of an integrated diagnostic approach

This study uses DNA barcoding to identify coral species in aquarium collections, finding that 44% could be identified to species level and 80% provisionally, highlighting biases in reference databases.