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2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne E. Littlefair ◽  
Michael D. Rennie ◽  
Melania E. Cristescu

AbstractNucleic acids released by organisms and isolated from environmental substrates are increasingly being used for molecular biomonitoring. While environmental DNA (eDNA) has received attention recently, the potential of environmental RNA as a biomonitoring tool remains less explored. Several recent studies using paired DNA and RNA metabarcoding of bulk samples suggest that RNA might better reflect “metabolically active” parts of the community. However, such studies mainly capture organismal eDNA and eRNA. For larger eukaryotes, isolation of extra-organismal RNA will be important, but viability needs to be examined in a field-based setting. In this study we evaluate (a) whether extra-organismal eRNA release from macroeukaryotes can be detected given its supposedly rapid degradation, and (b) if the same field collection methods for eDNA can be applied to eRNA. We collected eDNA and eRNA from water in lakes where fish community composition is well documented, enabling a comparison between the two nucleic acids in two different seasons with monitoring using conventional methods. We found that eRNA is released from macroeukaryotes and can be filtered from water and metabarcoded in a similar manner as eDNA to reliably provide species composition information. eRNA had a small but significantly greater true positive rate than eDNA, indicating that it correctly detects more species known to exist in the lakes. Given relatively small differences between the two molecules in describing fish community composition, we conclude that if eRNA provides significant advantages in terms of lability, it is a strong candidate to add to the suite of molecular monitoring tools.


2021 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Teja P. Muha ◽  
Deiene Rodriguez-Barreto ◽  
Richard O'Rorke ◽  
Carlos Garcia de Leaniz ◽  
Sofia Consuegra

Artificial instream barriers are a major cause of habitat fragmentation that reduce population connectivity and gene flow by limiting fish movements. To mitigate their impacts, obsolete barriers are increasingly been removed worldwide, but few barrier removal projects are monitored. We employed a powerful Before-After-Downstream-Upstream (BADU) approach using environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to examine the effects on fish community composition of removing a weir in the river Lugg (England) that had been suggested to have a detrimental effect on salmonid migration. We found no change in fish community diversity or relative abundance after the removal above or below the weir, but detected an important effect of sampling season, likely related to the species' life cycles. eDNA detected nine fish species that were also identified by electrofishing sampling and one additional species (Anguilla anguilla) that was missed by traditional surveys. Our results suggest that monitoring of barrier removal projects should be carried out to ensure that any ecological benefits are properly documented and that eDNA metabarcoding is a sensitive technique to monitor the effects of barrier removal.


2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-324
Author(s):  
Rafik ZARRAD ◽  
Rodriguez José-Maria ◽  
Alemany Francisco ◽  
Charef Aymen ◽  
Jarboui Othman ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 364-376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goutam Kumar Kundu ◽  
Md. Monirul Islam ◽  
Md. Foijul Hasan ◽  
Samapti Saha ◽  
Gouri Mondal ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 247-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin JP Holmes ◽  
John W. Hayes ◽  
Gerard P. Closs ◽  
Mary Beech ◽  
Marc Jary ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 615-629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tae Hee Park ◽  
Chung-Il Lee ◽  
Chang-Keun Kang ◽  
Jung Hyun Kwak ◽  
Sang Heon Lee ◽  
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