Advances in the use of molecular tools in ecological and biodiversity assessment of aquatic ecosystems
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Feio, Maria João; Filipe, Ana Filipa; García Raventós, Aina; Ardura, Alba; Calapez, Ana Raquel; Pujante, Ana María; Mortágua, Andreia; Múrria, Cesc; Díaz de Quijano, Daniel; Martins, Filipa MS; Duarte, Sofia; Saínz Bariáin, Marta; Cordeiro, Rita; Rivera, Sinziana F.; Väisänen, Leif O. S.; Fonseca, Amélia; Gonçalves, Vítor; García Vázquez, Eva; Vieites Rodríguez, David; [et al.]Fecha
2020-01Derechos
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
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Limnetica, 2020, 39(1), 419-440
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Asociación Ibérica de Limnología
Palabras clave
EDNA
Metabarcoding
Conservation
Ecological quality
Species detection
Rivers
Lakes
Thermal springs
Estuaries
Lagoons
Resumen/Abstract
ABSTRACT: Conservation and sustainable management of aquatic ecosystems is a priority in environmental programs worldwide. However, these aims are highly dependent on the efficiency, accuracy and cost of existent methods for the detection of keystone species
and monitoring of biological communities. Rapid advances in eDNA, barcoding and metabarcoding promoted by high-throughput sequencing technologies are generating millions of sequences in a fast way, with a promising cost reduction, and overcoming some difficulties of the traditional taxonomic approaches. This paper provides an updated broad perspective of the current developments in this dynamic field presented in the special session (SS) “The use of molecular tools in ecological and biodiversity assessment of aquatic ecosystems” of the XIX Congress of the Iberian Association of Limnology (AIL2018),
held in Coimbra, Portugal. Developments presented are mainly focused on the Iberian Peninsula (Portugal and Spain, including Atlantic Macaronesian islands) but include studies in France, Germany, Finland, Russia (Siberia) and South America. The networks within which
these researchers are involved are yet even broader, profiting from existing molecular facilities, and traditional taxonomic expertise, which can be viewed as a characteristic of this new research area. It was evident in the SS that the use of molecular tools is widespread, being used to study a diversity of aquatic systems, from rivers’ headwaters to estuaries and coastal lagoons, and volcanic, mountain and frozen lakes to hot springs. The organisms targeted are likewise varied and include fish, macroinvertebrates, meiofauna, microalgae such as diatoms and dinoflagellates, other protists, fungi, and bacteria (cyanobacteria and
other). Some studies address the whole biodiversity (i.e., all species present independently of the taxonomic group) from environmental samples of water, biofilms and preservative solution from field samples (e.g., ethanol from macroinvertebrate samples). Great advances were acknowledged in the special session, namely in the use of metabarcoding for detecting hidden biodiversity, juvenile stages, low-abundance species, non-indigenous species and toxicity potential, and ultimately for ecological monitoring of diatoms and invertebrates. Yet, several drawbacks were highlighted and need further work, which include: taxonomic gaps in the reference databases (including gaps at species level and on intraspecific variability) or absence of public databases (e.g. for meiofauna), still high sequencing costs, the need of a substantial bioinformatics effort, difficulties in establishing the amount of environmental sample necessary for a good DNA extraction and the need for testing different genetic markers to obtain accurate results.
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