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Identification of species in biodiversity conservation/protection plans

Environmental evaluation and monitoring

Biodiversity monitoring in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

Microbiological monitoring in soil matrices, wastewater.

Biosafety, food pathogens, microbiological control.

Verification of raw materials in foods for direct consumption.

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Approaches

There are two approaches with which we can analyze environmental DNA:

Unispecific approach:

Based on techniques that use species-specific molecular markers (barcoding), which allows the specific identification of an organism from an environmental sample or some raw material obtained from natural environmental samples or food.

Applications:

Identification of species to manage, protect or conserve particular species (native, endemic, threatened, endangered, others).

Food or environmental biosafety processes (detection of indicator, invasive, pathogenic species).

Authentication of biological control agents.

Monitoring of bacterial inoculants.

Advantage:

More accurate and faster tool than traditional identification methods.

Species can be detected even at low densities.

Independent identification of the life cycle (egg, larva, adult or intermediate stage).

Non-invasive technique, since it does not require observing, collecting, or sacrificing organisms.

Multi-specific approach:

based on methods that use universal or group-specific genetic markers that amplify the genetic material of one or more target groups (metabarcoding), which are sequenced using next-generation sequencing (NGS) platforms. From this information, the resulting sequences are compared with reference databases to generate a list of species present in the collected samples.

Applications:

Biodiversity monitoring in marine, aquatic and terrestrial systems.