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van der Valk T, Dalèn L. From genomic threat assessment to conservation action. Cell 2024; 187:1038-1041. [PMID: 38428386 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2024.01.038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Revised: 01/25/2024] [Accepted: 01/25/2024] [Indexed: 03/03/2024]
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Genomic approaches have the potential to play a pivotal role in conservation, both to detect threats to species and populations and to restore biodiversity through actions. We here separate these approaches into two subdisciplines, vulnerability and restoration genomics, and discuss current applications, outstanding questions, and future potential.
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- Tom van der Valk
- Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden; Science for Life Laboratory, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Centre for Palaeogenetics, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Bioinformatics and Genetics, Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Corral-Lou A, Doadrio I. Environmental DNA metabarcoding of water samples as a tool for monitoring Iberian freshwater fish composition. PLoS One 2023; 18:e0283088. [PMID: 37903086 PMCID: PMC10615313 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0283088] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2022] [Accepted: 03/01/2023] [Indexed: 11/01/2023] Open
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Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has been increasingly used to monitor the community assemblages of a wide variety of organisms. Here, we test the efficacy of eDNA metabarcoding to assess the composition of Iberian freshwater fishes, one of the most endangered groups of vertebrates in Spain. For this purpose, we sampled 12 sampling sites throughout one of Spain's largest basins, the Duero, which is home to approximately 70% of the genera and 30% of the primary freshwater fish in Spain. We sampled these sampling sites in the summer by using electrofishing, a traditional sampling method, and eDNA metabarcoding of river water samples using the mitochondrial 12S rRNA gene (12S) as a marker. We also resampled four of these sampling sites in autumn by eDNA. We compared the results obtained through eDNA metabarcoding with those of electrofishing surveys (ones conducted for the present study and past ones) and assessed the suitability of 12S as an eDNA metabarcoding marker for this group of freshwater fishes. We found that the 12S fragment, analysed for 25 Iberian species, showed sufficient taxonomic resolution to be useful for eDNA approaches, and even showed population-level differences in the studied populations across the tissue samples for Achondrostoma arcasii. In most cases, a greater number of species was detected through eDNA metabarcoding than through electrofishing. Based on our results, eDNA metabarcoding is a powerful tool to study the freshwater fish composition in the Iberian Peninsula and to unmask cryptic diversity. However, we highlight the need to generate a local genetic database for 12S gene for such studies and to interpret the results with caution when studying only mitochondrial DNA. Finally, our survey shows that the high detection sensitivity of eDNA metabarcoding and the non-invasiveness of this method allows it to act as a detection system for species of low abundance, such as early invasive species or species in population decline, two key aspects of conservation management of Spanish freshwater fishes.
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- Andrea Corral-Lou
- Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Department, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal, Madrid, Spain
- Consultores en Biología de la Conservación S.L., Daoiz, Madrid, Spain
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- Biodiversity and Evolutionary Biology Department, Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, José Gutiérrez Abascal, Madrid, Spain
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Riaz M, Warren D, Wittwer C, Cocchiararo B, Hundertmark I, Reiners TE, Klimpel S, Pfenninger M, Khaliq I, Nowak C. Using eDNA to understand predator-prey interactions influenced by invasive species. Oecologia 2023; 202:757-767. [PMID: 37594600 PMCID: PMC10474997 DOI: 10.1007/s00442-023-05434-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/16/2022] [Accepted: 08/03/2023] [Indexed: 08/19/2023]
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Invasive predatory species may alter population dynamic processes of their prey and impact biological communities and ecosystem processes. Revealing biotic interactions, however, including the relationship between predator and prey, is a difficult task, in particular for species that are hard to monitor. Here, we present a case study that documents the utility of environmental DNA analysis (eDNA) to assess predator-prey interactions between two invasive fishes (Lepomis gibbosus, Pseudorasbora parva) and two potential amphibian prey species, (Triturus cristatus, Pelobates fuscus). We used species-specific TaqMan assays for quantitative assessment of eDNA concentrations from water samples collected from 89 sites across 31 ponds during three consecutive months from a local amphibian hotspot in Germany. We found a negative relationship between eDNA concentrations of the predators (fishes) and prey (amphibians) using Monte-Carlo tests. Our study highlights the potential of eDNA application to reveal predator-prey interactions and confirms the hypothesis that the observed local declines of amphibian species may be at least partly caused by recently introduced invasive fishes. Our findings have important consequences for local conservation management and highlight the usefulness of eDNA approaches to assess ecological interactions and guide targeted conservation action.
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- Maria Riaz
- Conservation Genetics Section, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 63571, Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany.
- LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University, Max-Von-Laue-Straße 9, 60438, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany.
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- Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Okinawa, Japan
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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- Conservation Genetics Section, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 63571, Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany
- LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University, Max-Von-Laue-Straße 9, 60438, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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- Conservation Genetics Section, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 63571, Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany
- LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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- Hessische Gesellschaft Für Ornithologie Und Naturschutz (HGON E. V.), Lindenstrasse 5, 61209, Echzell, Germany
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- Conservation Genetics Section, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 63571, Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany
- Hessische Gesellschaft Für Ornithologie Und Naturschutz (HGON E. V.), Lindenstrasse 5, 61209, Echzell, Germany
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- LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
- Faculty of Biological Sciences, Institute for Ecology, Evolution and Diversity, Goethe University, Max-Von-Laue-Straße 9, 60438, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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- LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
- Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK-F), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
- Institute for Molecular and Organismic Evolution, Johannes Gutenberg University, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 7, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Department of Education, Punjab, Pakistan
- Department of Aquatic Ecology Eawag (Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology) Überlandstrasse 133, 8600, Dübendorf, Switzerland
- Snow and Landscape Research (WSL), Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Flüelastr. 11, 7260, Davos Dorf, Switzerland
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- Conservation Genetics Section, Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum, 63571, Frankfurt, Gelnhausen, Germany
- LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics (LOEWE-TBG), Senckenberganlage 25, 60325, Frankfurt Am Main, Germany
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Marsh CJ, Gavish Y, Kuemmerlen M, Stoll S, Haase P, Kunin WE. SDM profiling: A tool for assessing the information-content of sampled and unsampled locations for species distribution models. Ecol Modell 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110170] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Young MK, Isaak DJ, Nagel D, Horan DL, Carim KJ, Franklin TW, Zeller VA, Roper B, Schwartz MK. Broad-scale eDNA sampling for describing aquatic species distributions in running waters: Pacific lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus in the upper Snake River, USA. JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY 2022; 101:1312-1325. [PMID: 36053967 DOI: 10.1111/jfb.15202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/21/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
One of the most fundamental yet challenging tasks for aquatic ecologists is to precisely delineate the range of species, particularly those that are broadly distributed, require specialized sampling methods, and may be simultaneously declining and increasing in different portions of their range. An exemplar is the Pacific lamprey Entosphenus tridentatus, a jawless anadromous fish of conservation concern that is actively managed in many coastal basins in western North America. To efficiently determine its distribution across the accessible 56,168 km of the upper Snake River basin in the north-western United States, we first delimited potential habitat by using predictions from a species distribution model based on conventionally collected historical data and from the distribution of a potential surrogate, Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha, which yielded a potential habitat network of 10,615 km. Within this area, we conducted a two-stage environmental DNA survey involving 394 new samples and 187 archived samples collected by professional biologists and citizen scientists using a single, standardized method from 2015 to 2021. We estimated that Pacific lamprey occupied 1875 km of lotic habitat in this basin, of which 1444 km may have been influenced by recent translocation efforts. Pacific lamprey DNA was consistently present throughout most river main stems, although detections became weaker or less frequent in the largest and warmest downstream channels and near their headwater extent. Pacific lamprey were detected in nearly all stocked tributaries, but there was no evidence of indigenous populations in such habitats. There was evidence of post-stocking movement because detections were 1.8-36.0 km upstream from release sites. By crafting a model-driven spatial sampling template and executing an eDNA-based sampling campaign led by professionals and volunteers, supplemented by previously collected samples, we established a benchmark for understanding the current range of Pacific lamprey across a large portion of its range in the interior Columbia River basin. This approach could be tailored to refine range estimates for other wide-ranging aquatic species of conservation concern.
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- Michael K Young
- USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation, Missoula, Montana, USA
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- USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise Spatial Streams Group, Boise, Idaho, USA
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- USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise Spatial Streams Group, Boise, Idaho, USA
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- USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise Spatial Streams Group, Boise, Idaho, USA
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- USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula, Montana, USA
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- USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation, Missoula, Montana, USA
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- USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation, Missoula, Montana, USA
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- USDA Forest Service, National Stream and Aquatic Ecology Center, Logan, Utah, USA
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- USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, National Genomics Center for Wildlife and Fish Conservation, Missoula, Montana, USA
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Mammola S, Pétillon J, Hacala A, Monsimet J, Marti S, Cardoso P, Lafage D. Challenges and opportunities of species distribution modelling of terrestrial arthropod predators. DIVERS DISTRIB 2021. [DOI: 10.1111/ddi.13434] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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- Stefano Mammola
- Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research (LIBRe) Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUOMUS) University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
- Molecular Ecology Group (MEG), Water Research Institute (RSA) National Research Council (CNR) Verbania Pallanza Italy
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- UMR ECOBIO Université de Rennes 1 Rennes France
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- Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences, Campus Evenstad Koppang Norway
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- Laboratory for Integrative Biodiversity Research (LIBRe) Finnish Museum of Natural History (LUOMUS) University of Helsinki Helsinki Finland
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- UMR ECOBIO Université de Rennes 1 Rennes France
- Department of Environmental and Life Sciences/Biology Karlstad University Karlstad Sweden
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Wang S, Yan Z, Hänfling B, Zheng X, Wang P, Fan J, Li J. Methodology of fish eDNA and its applications in ecology and environment. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2021; 755:142622. [PMID: 33059148 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.142622] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/14/2020] [Revised: 09/09/2020] [Accepted: 09/23/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Fish environmental DNA (eDNA) studies have made substantial progress during the past decade, and significant advances in monitoring fishes have been gained by taking advantage of this technology. Although a number of reviews concerning eDNA are available and some recent fish eDNA reviews focused on fisheries or standard method have been published, a systematic review of methodology of fish eDNA and its applications in ecology and environment has not yet been published. To our knowledge, this is the first review of fish eDNA for solving ecological and environmental issues. First, the most comprehensive literature analysis of fish eDNA was presented and analyzed. Then, we systematically discuss the relevant experiments and analyses of fish eDNA, and infers that standard workflow is on the way to consensus. We additionally provide reference sequence databases and the primers used to amplify the reference sequences or detecting fish eDNA. The abiotic and biotic conditions affecting fish eDNA persistence are also summarized in a schematic diagram. Subsequently, we focus on the major achievements of fish eDNA in ecology and environment. We additionally highlight the exciting new tools, including in situ autonomous monitoring devices, CRISPR nucleic acid detection technology, and meta-omics technology for fish eDNA detection in future. Ultimately, methodology of fish eDNA will provide a wholly new paradigm for conservation actions of fishes, ecological and environmental management at a global scale.
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- Shuping Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China.
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- School of Environmental Sciences, University of Hull, Hull HU6 7RX, UK
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Environmental Criteria and Risk Assessment, Chinese Research Academy of Environmental Sciences, Beijing 100012, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Marine Resource Utilization in South China Sea, Hainan University, Haikou, Hainan 570228, China
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Hempel CA, Peinert B, Beermann AJ, Elbrecht V, Macher JN, Macher TH, Jacobs G, Leese F. Using Environmental DNA to Monitor the Reintroduction Success of the Rhine Sculpin (Cottus rhenanus) in a Restored Stream. Front Ecol Evol 2020. [DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2020.00081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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