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Small-scale spatial variation of meiofaunal communities in Lima estuary (NW Por...
Fais, Maria; Duarte, Sofia Alexandra Ferreira; Vieira, P. E.; Sousa, Ronaldo Gomes; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad; Canchaya, Carlos Alberto; Costa, Filipe O.Meiofaunal organisms play a key role in estuarine ecosystems, being responsible for significant ecological processes. However, meiofauna constitutes a particularly difficult community to be monitored through conventional morphology-based approaches. New emerging tools, such as DNA metabarcoding, facilitate the access to these communities and provide an opportunity to develop routine monitoring programs. In the ...
Patterns of spatial and temporal variation in estuarine meiofaunal communities ...
Fais, Maria; Duarte, Sofia Alexandra Ferreira; Vieira, Pedro Emanuel Ferreira Reis; Sousa, Ronaldo Gomes; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad; Canchaya, CarlosMeiobenthic organisms are key components of estuarine environments, providing invaluable functions and services. In particular, meiofaunal organisms participate actively in nutrient cycles and energy flux, supporting higher trophic levels, as well as the stabilization of sediments. Due to their small size (between 30 µm and 1mm) and high dispersal potential, meiofauna was considered to have a ubiquitous distrib...
DNA metabarcoding for high-throughput monitoring of estuarine macrobenthic comm...
Lobo, Jorge; Shokralla, Shadi; Costa, Maria Helena; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad; Costa, Filipe O.Morphology-based profling of benthic communities has been extensively applied to aquatic ecosystems’ health assessment. However, it remains a low-throughput, and sometimes ambiguous, procedure. Despite DNA metabarcoding has been applied to marine benthos, a comprehensive approach providing species-level identifcations for estuarine macrobenthos is still lacking. Here we report a combination of experimental and ...
Stepwise implementation of high-throughput sequencing metabarcoding to estuarin...
Lobo, Jorge; Shokralla, Shadi; Costa, Maria H.; Hajibabaei, Mehrdad; Costa, Filipe O.
Genomics and the challenging translation into conservation practice
Shafer, Aaron B.A.; Wolf, Jochen B.W.; Alves, Paulo C.; Bergström, Linnea; Bruford, Michael W.; Brännström, Ioana; Colling, Guy; Dalén, LoveThe global loss of biodiversity continues at an alarming rate. Genomic approaches have been suggested as a promising tool for conservation practice as scaling up to genome-wide data can improve traditional conservation genetic inferences and provide qualitatively novel insights. However, the generation of genomic data and subsequent analyses and interpretations remain challenging and largely confined to academi...