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Title: Trade-offs between reducing complex terminology and producing accurate interpretations from environmental DNA: Comment on 'Environmental DNA: What's behind the term?' by Pawlowski et al. (2020)
Author: Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, Naiara
Morissette, Olivier
Bean, Colin W.
Manu, Shivakumara
Banerjee, Pritam
Lacoursière-Roussel, Anaïs
Beng, Kingsly C.
Alter, S. Elizabeth
Roger, Fabian
Holman, Luke E.
Stewart, Kathryn A.
Monaghan, Michael T.
Mauvisseau, Quentin
Mirimin, Luca
Wangensteen Fuentes, Owen S. (Simon)
Antognazza, Caterina M.
Helyar, Sarah J.
de Boer, Hugo
Monchamp, Marie-Eve
Nijland, Reindert
Abbott, Cathryn L.
Doi, Hideyuki
Barnes, Matthew A.
Leray, Matthieu
Hablützel, Pascal I.
Deiner, Kristy
Keywords: ADN
Seguiment biològic
DNA
Biological monitoring
Issue Date: 25-May-2021
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Abstract: In a recent paper, 'Environmental DNA: What's behind the term? Clarifying the terminology and recommendations for its future use in biomonitoring,' Pawlowski et al. argue that the term eDNA should be used to refer to the pool of DNA isolated from environmental samples, as opposed to only extra-organismal DNA from macro-organisms. We agree with this view. However, we are concerned that their proposed two-level terminology specifying sampling environment and targeted taxa is overly simplistic and might hinder rather than improve clear communication about environmental DNA and its use in biomonitoring. This terminology is based on categories that are often difficult to assign and uninformative, and it overlooks a fundamental distinction within eDNA: the type of DNA (organismal or extra-organismal) from which ecological interpretations are derived.
Note: Reproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15942
It is part of: Molecular Ecology, 2021, vol. 30, num. 19, p. 4601-4605
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/191548
Related resource: https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.15942
ISSN: 0962-1083
Appears in Collections:Articles publicats en revistes (Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals)

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