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Optimal detection protocol of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae by environmental DNA: A comparison of qPCR and ddPCR approaches (2023)
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Investigation of environmental DNA (eDNA) is increasingly used to precisely and non‐invasively detect and monitor pathogens. Among these, Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae is a myxozoan endoparasite that causes proliferative kidney disease (PKD) in salmo... Read More about Optimal detection protocol of Tetracapsuloides bryosalmonae by environmental DNA: A comparison of qPCR and ddPCR approaches.

Individual level microbial communities in the digestive system of the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus: Complex, robust and prospective (2023)
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The freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus is an important decomposer of leaf detritus, and its diverse gut microbiome has been depicted as key contributors in lignocellulose degradation as of terrestrial isopods. However, it is not clear whether the in... Read More about Individual level microbial communities in the digestive system of the freshwater isopod Asellus aquaticus: Complex, robust and prospective.

Parasite DNA detection in water samples enhances crayfish plague monitoring in asymptomatic invasive populations (2021)
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Invasive species can facilitate the spread of pathogens by first providing asymptomatic host reservoirs, and then driving disease outbreaks in native populations through pathogen spillover. An example of this are invasive crayfish species in Europe (... Read More about Parasite DNA detection in water samples enhances crayfish plague monitoring in asymptomatic invasive populations.

Exploration of the 2016 Yellowstone River fish kill and proliferative kidney disease in wild fish populations (2021)
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Proliferative kidney disease (PKD) is an emerging disease that recently resulted in a large mortality event of salmonids in the Yellowstone River (Montana, USA). Total PKD fish mortalities in the Yellowstone River were estimated in the tens of thousa... Read More about Exploration of the 2016 Yellowstone River fish kill and proliferative kidney disease in wild fish populations.

Estimating species distribution and abundance in river networks using environmental DNA (2018)
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All organisms leave traces of DNA in their environment. This environmental DNA (eDNA) is often used to track occurrence patterns of target species. Applications are especially promising in rivers, where eDNA can integrate information about population... Read More about Estimating species distribution and abundance in river networks using environmental DNA.

Integrated field, laboratory, and theoretical study of PKD spread in a Swiss prealpine river (2017)
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Assessing myxozoan presence and diversity using environmental DNA (2016)
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Amplicon sequencing on a High Throughput Sequencing platform (custom barcoding) was used to detect and characterise myxosporean communities in environmental DNA samples from marine and freshwater environments and in faeces of animals that may serve a... Read More about Assessing myxozoan presence and diversity using environmental DNA.

Diversification and repeated morphological transitions in endoparasitic cnidarians (Myxozoa: Malacosporea) (2014)
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Malacosporeans are a poorly known myxozoan clade that uniquely demonstrates a tissue level of organisation. Thus, when exploiting their invertebrate hosts (freshwater bryozoans) they occur as non-motile sacs or vermiform stages capable of active swim... Read More about Diversification and repeated morphological transitions in endoparasitic cnidarians (Myxozoa: Malacosporea).

Mikrocytids Are a Broadly Distributed and Divergent Radiation of Parasites in Aquatic Invertebrates (2014)
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Microcell parasites have independently evolved in several eukaryotic lineages and are increasingly recognized as important and emerging pathogens of diverse hosts, including species of economic importance subject to international legislation concerni... Read More about Mikrocytids Are a Broadly Distributed and Divergent Radiation of Parasites in Aquatic Invertebrates.

Form and metabolic scaling in colonial animals (2014)
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Benthic colonial organisms exhibit a wide variation in size and shape and provide excellent model systems for testing the predictions of models that describe the scaling of metabolic rate with organism size. We tested the hypothesis that colony form... Read More about Form and metabolic scaling in colonial animals.