Journal Club April 25th 2024

This Journal Club meeting was held on the 25th of April, at 2pm in the Forhus 7 at the GeoGenetic meeting room.

We read and discussed this recent paper High resolution ancient sedimentary DNA shows that alpine plant diversity is associated with human land use and climate change by Garcés-Pastor et al. (2022).

Aleksandra Pach presented the paper outline shortly and highlighted the key points of interesting.

Recently published papers:

McCauley et al., 2024, Multicellular species environmental DNA (eDNA) research constrained by overfocus on mitochondrial DNA, Science of the Total Environment.

Armando Espinosa Prieto et al., 2024. published "Finding the perfect pairs: A matchmaking of plant markers and primers for multi-marker eDNA metabarcoding ", Molecular Ecology Resources.

Leighton King et al., 2024. published "Anthropogenic forcing leads to an abrupt shift to phytoplankton dominance in a shallow eutrophic lake ", Freshwater Biology.

Claudia Piccini et al., 2024. published "Prokaryotic richness and diversity increased during Holocene glacier retreat and the onset of an Antarctic Lake ", Communications earth & environment.

Nicole R. Foster et al., 2024. published "Environmental DNA identifies coastal plant community shift 1,000 years ago in Torrens Island, South Australia ", Communications earth & environment.

Dongna Y. et al., 2024. published "Organic matter content and source is associated with the depth-dependent distribution of prokaryotes in lake sediments", Freshwater Biology.

Prashasti Singh et al., 2024. published "Marine sedimentary ancient DNA from Antarctic diatoms", Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology.

Dongna Y. et al., 2024. published "Anthropogenic drivers accelerate the changes of lake microbial eukaryotic communities over the past 160 years", QSR.

Georgia Thomson-Laing et al., 2024. published "Sedimentary ancient DNA reveals the impact of anthropogenic land use disturbance and ecological shifts on fish community structure in small lowland lake ", Science of The Total Environment.

Jan Laine et al., 2024. published "Late Pleistocene stickleback environmental genomes reveal the chronology of freshwater adaptation", Current Biology.

Preprints

Schmidt, A., 2023. preprint. "Decoding the Baltic Sea's Past and Present: A simple Molecular Index for Ecosystem Assessment", bioRxiv.

Pach A.L., 2023 preprint. "Digesting the data: Proper validation in ancient metagenomic studies is essential", bioRxiv.