• DNA metabarcoding reveals modern and past eukaryotic communities in a high-mountain peat bog system 

      Garcés-Pastor, Sandra; Wangensteen Fuentes, Owen Simon; Pérez-Haase, Aaron; Pèlachs, Albert; Pérez-Obiol, Ramon; Cañellas-Boltà, Nuria; Mariani, Stefano; Vegas-Villarubia, Teresa (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-30)
      Peat bogs located in high mountains are suitable places to study local environmental responses to climate variability. These ecosystems host a large number of eukaryotes with diverse taxonomic and functional diversity. We carried out a metabarcoding study using universal 18S and COI markers to explore the composition of past and present eukaryotic communities of a Pyrenean peat bog ecosystem. We ...
    • The sedimentary ancient DNA workflow 

      Heintzman, Peter D.; Nota, Kevin; Rouillard, Alexandra; Lammers, Youri; Murchie, Tyler; Armbrecht, Linda; Garcés-Pastor, Sandra; Vernot, Benjamin (Chapter; Bokkapittel, 2023)
      Sedimentary ancient DNA (sedaDNA) is continuing to revolutionise our understanding of past biological and geological processes by retrieving and analysing the ancient DNA preserved in lake, cave, open terrestrial, midden, permafrozen, and marine environments (Crump, 2021). The study of sedaDNA began in the late 1990s (Coolen and Overmann, 1998) with the first reports of extinct animal sedaDNA in ...