Molecular ecology resources

01 19 October 2026

DOI 10.1111/1755-0998.70217

Car‐Mounted Airborne eDNA Sampling Detects Landscape Scale Biodiversity Turnover Along Environmental Gradients

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Joshua P. Newton, Morten E. Allentoft, Philip W. Bateman et al.

Documenting accelerating global biodiversity decline requires monitoring tools that can operate across large spatial scales and repeated timeframes. Analysis of airborne environmental DNA (eDNA) is an emerging method used to track specie...

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02 16 October 2026

DOI 10.1111/1755-0998.70214

Accounting for Variability Across Years, Depths, and Non‐Target Reads Improves Quantification of Root Community Composition in Plant Mixtures

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Emma K. Rice, Jason C. Keagy, Terrence H. Bell et al.

One key challenge in characterizing plant communities is determining the relative abundance of distinct species in root biomass. Metabarcoding is increasingly used to estimate a species' proportion in root mass based on its proportion in...

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03 14 October 2026

DOI 10.1111/1755-0998.70216

Establishing Practical and Cost‐Effective Methodologies for Preservation and Extraction of Environmental RNA ( eRNA ) From Aquatic Samples

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Elise D. Snyder, Teya C. Broyles, Sarah A. Molinaro et al.

Sampling environmental nucleic acids (eDNA and eRNA, collectively eNA) in aquatic systems facilitates the efficient exploration of the distribution of aquatic species. Since eRNA is inherently less stable than eDNA, eRNA may yield more s...

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04 13 October 2026

DOI 10.1111/1755-0998.70215

The Signal of Admixture Can Decay Rapidly When Using Clustering‐Based Methods

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Josia Shemuel, Sonal Singhal, Craig Moritz et al.

Gene flow shapes evolutionary trajectories by introducing novel alleles, facilitating or retarding adaptation or eroding divergence among populations. Studies commonly infer gene flow through estimates of genetic admixture from methods t...

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05 7 October 2026

DOI 10.1111/1755-0998.70210

Historical Plant Embryos as Alternative Sources of Ancient DNA for Whole Genome Sequencing

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Hong Phuong Le, Stefano Porrelli, Yoon Kyung Lee et al.

Natural history and agricultural collections contain hundreds of millions of specimens classified in terms of time, space and taxonomy. Since the first success of ancient DNA (aDNA) isolation in the 1980s, these repositories, including h...

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06 6 October 2026

DOI 10.1111/1755-0998.70211

MitoNumt : A Workflow for Recovering Mitochondrial Genomes From Long‐Read Data and Detecting NUMT Contamination in Mitochondrial Genome Assemblies

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Ruidong Cao, Tong Xin, Yubo Hao et al.

Nuclear mitochondrial DNA segments (NUMTs) are genomic DNA fragments that originate from historical insertions of mitochondrial DNA sequences into the nuclear genome. During mitochondrial genome (mtgenome) assembly from short‐read genome...

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07 4 October 2026

DOI 10.1111/1755-0998.70213

Simplifying Macroinvertebrate Biodiversity Assessment: A Standardised Metabarcoding Method for Invertebrate Samples With High Volumes of Debris

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Melissa Carew, Jessica Chung, Geneveive Hehir et al.

DNA metabarcoding of freshwater macroinvertebrate samples can provide rapid and accurate identification of species diversity. Processing samples where macroinvertebrates are not separated from net contents can substantially reduce time a...

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08 28 September 2026

DOI 10.1111/1755-0998.70207

Distinct Environmental DNA States Reveal Biodiversity and Transport Patterns Across Alpine Watersheds

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Anish Kirtane, Enrico van der Loo, Zora Doppmann et al.

Environmental DNA (eDNA) exists in three states: membrane‐bound, adsorbed and dissolved. These states differ in persistence and degradation, strongly influencing the interpretation of eDNA data. Despite this, they have rarely been separa...

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09 28 September 2026

DOI 10.1111/1755-0998.70202

Simultaneous Inference of Flora‐Wide Nuclear and Plastid Phylogenies Using Angiosperms353 Sequence Capture Data

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Sébastien Miche, Charles Pouchon, Camille Christe et al.

Accurate knowledge of phylogenetic relationships and divergence time among plant species composing a regional flora is crucial for understanding the origin of the biodiversity patterns we observe today. Despite advances in phylogenomics,...

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10 24 September 2026

DOI 10.1111/1755-0998.70203

A Genomic Tool to Tackle Cryptic Diversity Demonstrates the Potential for Off‐Target Use of GT ‐Seq Panels

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Amanda S. Ackiss, Mark R. Vinson, Ann J. Ropp et al.

A comprehensive understanding of life history is vital to successful species conservation and management. When different life history stages are accompanied by considerable morphological or cryptic variation, such as the egg and larval p...

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