Xavier Turón

Getting to the core of the matter: Assessing the role of replication in sedimentary DNA metabarcoding

This study evaluates the impact of replication on sedimentary DNA metabarcoding by analyzing variation in community composition across biological, technical, and stratigraphic replicates.

From storms to warming seas: a long-term metabarcoding survey in port communities unveils high genetic diversity and ecological resilience of non-indigenous species

This study uses long-term metabarcoding to show non-indigenous species in ports have high genetic diversity and resilience despite low species richness.

The coloNISation: spatio-temporal metabarcoding surveys in ports reveal homogenised communities with high genetic diversity and connectivity of non-indigenous species

The paper uses COI metabarcoding to analyze metazoan communities in harbours, finding high genetic diversity and connectivity among non-indigenous species despite their lower species count.

Environmental DNA reveals biotic homogenization alongside elevated native and non-native species richness in marinas, supporting an ecological portuarization syndrome

This study uses eDNA metabarcoding to show that marinas have higher species richness and more homogeneous animal assemblages than natural habitats, supporting the ecological dimension of the biological portuarization syndrome.

DnoisE: Distance denoising by Entropy. An open-source parallelizable alternative for denoising sequence datasets

DnoisE is a denoising tool for sequence datasets that uses codon entropy to merge erroneous reads with correct ones, improving accuracy for coding markers.

To denoise or to cluster? That is not the question. Optimizing pipelines for COI metabarcoding and metaphylogeography

The paper compares denoising and clustering methods for COI metabarcoding, arguing they are complementary and should be used together to better capture biodiversity information.