• DNA Metabarcoding of Preservative Ethanol Reveals Changes in Invertebrate Community Composition Following Rotenone Treatment 

      Kjærstad, Gaute; Majaneva, Markus; Falahati-Anbaran, Mohsen; Topstad, Lasse; Finstad, Anders Gravbrøt; Arnekleiv, Jo Vegar; Ekrem, Torbjørn (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      The botanical compound rotenone is extensively used to eradicate populations and reduce the negative impacts of freshwater invasive animals. The method is controversial as non-target organisms often are negatively affected, ...
    • DNA Sequencing Historical Lichen Specimens 

      Kistenich, Sonja; Halvorsen, Rune; Schrøder-Nielsen, Audun; Thorbek, Birgitte Lisbeth Graae; Timdal, Einar; Bendiksby, Mika (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Biological specimens in natural history collections worldwide are increasingly being used in biogeographical, environmental, and taxonomic studies. For their meaningful use, correct species identification is crucial. For ...
    • DNA-Based Arthropod Diversity Assessment in Amazonian Iron Mine Lands Show Ecological Succession Towards Undisturbed Reference Sites 

      Lynggaard, Christina; Yu, Douglas W.; Oliveira, Guilherme; Caldeira, Cecilio F.; Ramos, Silvio J.; Ellegaard, Martin; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Gastauer, Markus; Bohmann, Kristine (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Human activities change natural landscapes, and in doing so endanger biodiversity and associated ecosystem services. To reduce the net impacts of these activities, such as mining, disturbed areas are rehabilitated and ...
    • DNA-metastrekkoding til undersøkelser av invertebrater i ferskvann 

      Ekrem, Torbjørn; Majaneva, Markus (NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet naturhistorisk notat;, Research report, 2019)
      DNA-metastrekkoding (metabarcoding) er en teknikk der en ved hjelp av korte DNA-sekvenser kan identifisere artene i en miljø- eller bulkprøve (usortert samleprøve). Metoden har potensiale til å revolusjonere miljøovervåkning ...
    • DNAqua-Net: Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Europe 

      Leese, Florian; Altermatt, F; Bouchez, A; Ekrem, Torbjørn; Hering, D; Meissner, K; Mergen, P; Pawlowski, J; Piggott, JJ; Rimet, F; Steinke, D; Taberlet, P; Weigand, AM; Abarankov, K; Beja, P; Bervoets, L; Björnsdóttir, S; Boets, P; Boggero, A; Bones, Atle M.; Vrålstad, Trude (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)
      The protection, preservation and restoration of aquatic ecosystems and their functions are of global importance. For European states it became legally binding mainly through the EU-Water Framework Directive (WFD). In order ...
    • Does urbanisation lead to parallel demographic shifts across the world in a cosmopolitan plant? 

      Caizergues, Aude E.; Santangelo, James S.; Falahati-Anbaran, Mohsen; Fellowes, Mark D. E. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)
      Urbanisation is occurring globally, leading to dramatic environmental changes that are altering the ecology and evolution of species. In particular, the expansion of human infrastructure and the loss and fragmentation of ...
    • Draft genome sequence and annotation of the lichen-forming fungus Arthonia radiata 

      Armstrong, Ellie E.; Prost, Stefan; Ertz, Damien; Westberg, Martin; Frisch, Andreas; Bendiksby, Mika (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We report here the draft de novo genome assembly, transcriptome assembly, and annotation of the lichen-forming fungus Arthonia radiata (Pers.) Ach., the type species for Arthoniomycetes, a class of lichen-forming, ...
    • A draft genome sequence of the elusive giant squid, Architeuthis dux 

      Da Fonseca, Rute R.; Couto, Alvarina; Machado, Andre M; Brejova, Brona; Albertin, Carolin B; Silva, Filipe; Gardner, Paul; Baril, Tobias; Hayward, Alex; Campos, Alexandre; Ribeiro, Ângela M; Barrio-Hernandez, Inigo; Hoving, Henk-Jan; Tafur-Jimenez, Ricardo; Chu, Chong; Frazão, Barbara; Petersen, Bent; Peñaloza, Fernando; Musacchia, Francesco; Alexander, Graham C; Osório, Hugo; Winkelmann, Inger; Simakov, Oleg; Rasmussen, Simon; Rahman, M. Ziaur; Pisani, Davide; Vinther, Jakob; Jarvis, Erich D.; Zhang, Guojie; Strugnell, Jan M.; Castro, L. Filipe C; Fedrigo, Olivier; Patricio, Mateus; Li, Qiye; Rocha, Sara; Antunes, Agostinho; Wu, Yufeng; Ma, Bin; Sanges, Remo; Vinar, Tomas; Blagoev, Blagoy; Sicheritz-Pontén, Thomas; Nielsen, Rasmus; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Background The giant squid (Architeuthis dux; Steenstrup, 1857) is an enigmatic giant mollusc with a circumglobal distribution in the deep ocean, except in the high Arctic and Antarctic waters. The elusiveness of the ...
    • Drivers of diet patterns in a globally distributed freshwater fish species 

      Javier, Sánchez-Hernández; Finstad, Anders Gravbrøt; Arnekleiv, Jo Vegar; Kjærstad, Gaute; Amundsen, Per-Arne (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      We analysed data of a globally distributed model organism (brown trout) in an attempt to understand relationships among biogeography, prey communities and climate on diet composition at regional spatial scales (Scandinavia), ...
    • Drivers of vegetative dormancy across herbaceous perennial plant species 

      Shefferson, Richard P.; Kull, Tiiu; Hutchings, Michael J.; Selosse, Marc-André; Jacquemyn, Hans; Kellett, Kimberly M.; Menges, Eric S.; Primack, Richard B.; Tuomi, Juha; Alahuhta, Kirsi; Hurskainen, Sonja; Alexander, Helen M.; Anderson, Derek S.; Brys, Rein; Brzosko, Emilia; Dostálik, Slavomir; Gregg, Katharine; Ipser, Zdenek; Jäkäläniemi, Anne; Jersáková, Jana; Kettle, W. Dean; McCormick, Melissa; Mendoza, Ana; Miller, Michael T.; Moen, Asbjørn; Øien, Dag-Inge; Püttsepp, Ülle; Roy, Mélanie; Sather, Nancy; Sletvold, Nina; Stípková, Zuzana; Tali, Kadri; Warren, Robert J. II; Whigham, Dennis F. (Journal article, 2018)
      Vegetative dormancy, that is the temporary absence of aboveground growth for ≥ 1 year, is paradoxical, because plants cannot photosynthesise or flower during dormant periods. We test ecological and evolutionary hypotheses ...
    • Dvergblåvinge (Cupido minimus) i Grønlia på Lade, Trondheim 

      Aagaard, Kaare; Hårsaker, Karstein; Øien, Dag-Inge (NTNU Vitenskapsmuseet naturhistorisk rapport;2018-7, Research report, 2018)
      Dvergblåvingen Cupido minimus er bare kjent fra et fåtall lokaliteter i Trondheim kommune. Bestanden i Grønlia på Lade har vært kjent i over tjue år og har vært fulgt med fangs-gjenfangst metodikk i seks av sesongene siden ...
    • Early marine migration of European silver eel (Anguilla anguilla) in Northern Norway 

      Davidsen, Jan Grimsrud; Finstad, Bengt; Økland, Finn; Thorstad, Eva Bonsak; Mo, Tor Atle; Rikardsen, Audun H. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2011)
    • Early Pleistocene enamel proteome from Dmanisi resolves Stephanorhinus phylogeny 

      Cappellini, Enrico; Welker, Frido; Pandolfi, Luca; Ramos-Madrigal, Jazmín; Samodova, Diana; Rüther, Patrick L.; Fotakis, Anna K.; Lyon, David; Moreno-Mayar, J. Víctor; Bukhsianidze, Maia; Jersie-Christensen, Rosa Rakownikow; Mackie, Meaghan; Ginolhac, Aurélien; Ferring, Reid; Tappen, Martha; Palkopoulou, Eleftheria; Dickinson, Marc R.; Stafford, Jr., Thomas W.; Chan, Yvonne L.; Götherström, Anders; Nathan, Senthilvel K.S.S.; Heintzman, Peter D.; Kapp, Joshua D.; Kirillova, Irina V.; Moodley, Yoshan; Agusti, Jordi; Kahlke, Ralf-Dietrich; Kiladze, Gocha; Martínez-Navarro, Bienvenido; Liu, Shanlin; Sandoval Velasco, Marcela; Sinding, Mikkel-Holger S.; Kelstrup, Christian D.; Allentoft, Morten E.; Orlando, Ludovic; Penkman, Kirsty; Shapiro, Beth; Rook, Lorenzo; Dalén, Love; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Olsen, Jesper V.; Lordkipanidze, David; Willerslev, Eske (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      The sequencing of ancient DNA has enabled the reconstruction of speciation, migration and admixture events for extinct taxa1. However, the irreversible post-mortem degradation2 of ancient DNA has so far limited its ...
    • The Earth BioGenome Project 2020: Starting the clock 

      Lewin, Harris A.; Richards, Stephen; Aiden, Erez Lieberman; Allende, Miguel L.; Archibald, John M.; Bálint, Miklós; Barker, Katharine B.; Baumgartner, Bridget; Belov, Katherine; Bertorelle, Giorgio; Blaxter, Mark L.; Cai, Jing; Caperello, Nicolette D.; Carlson, Keith; Castilla-Rubio, Juan Carlos; Chaw, Shu-Miaw; Chen, Lei; Childers, Anna K.; Coddington, Jonathan A.; Conde, Dalia A.; Corominas, Montserrat; Crandall, Keith A.; Crawford, Andrew J.; DiPalma, Federica; Durbin, Richard; Ebenezer, ThankGod E.; Edwards, Scott V.; Fedrigo, Olivier; Flicek, Paul; Formenti, Giulio; Gibbs, Richard A.; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius; Goldstein, Melissa M.; Graves, Jennifer Marshall; Greely, Henry T.; Grigoriev, Igor V.; Hackett, Kevin J.; Hall, Neil; Haussler, David; Helgen, Kristofer M.; Hogg, Carolyn J.; Isobe, Sachiko; Jakobsen, Kjetill Sigurd; Janke, Axel; Jarvis, Erich D.; Johnson, Warren E.; Jones, Steven J.M.; Karlsson, Elinor K.; Kersey, Paul J.; Kim, Jin-Hyoung; Kress, W. John; Kuraku, Shigehiro; Lawniczak, Mara K.N.; Leebens-Mack, James H.; Li, Xueyan; Lindblad-Toh, Kerstin; Liu, Xin; Lopez, Jose V.; Marques-Bonet, Tomas; Mazard, Sophie; Mazet, Jonna A.K.; Mazzoni, Camila J.; Myers, Eugene W.; O’Neill, Rachel J.; Paez, Sadye; Park, Hyun; Robinson, Gene E.; Roquet, Cristina; Ryder, Oliver A.; Sabir, Jamal S.M.; Shaffer, H. Bradley; Shank, Timothy M.; Sherkow, Jacob S.; Soltis, Pamela S.; Tang, Boping; Tedersoo, Leho; Uliano-Silva, Marcela; Wang, Kun; Wei, Xiaofeng; Wetzer, Regina; Wilson, Julia L.; Xu, Xun; Yang, Huanming; Yoder, Anne D.; Zhang, Guojie (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
    • Ecologist engagement in translational science is imperative for building resilience to global change threats 

      Rubert-Nason, Kennedy; Casper, A.M. Aramati; Jurjonas, Matt; Mandeville, Caitlin; Potter, Rebecca; Schwarz, Kirsten (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      The causes and consequences of global change are well-documented, as are mitigation and adaptation strategies. However, human actions continue to fail in building adequate socio-ecological resilience to the accelerating ...
    • Ecology, Not Host Phylogeny, Shapes the Oral Microbiome in Closely Related Species 

      Maraitou, Markella; Forsythe, Adrian; Fellows Yates, James A.; Brealey, Jaelle; Warinner, Christina; Guschanski, Katerina (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)
      Host-associated microbiomes are essential for a multitude of biological processes. Placed at the contact zone between external and internal environments, the little-studied oral microbiome has important roles in host ...
    • Editorial: Herbarium Collection-Based Plant Evolutionary Genetics and Genomics 

      Bakker, Freek T.; Bieker, Vanessa Carina; Martin, Michael David (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Over the past centuries and especially the last decades, herbarium collections world-wide have amassed an estimated 350 million specimens of plants and fungi, deposited in 3,400 herbaria world-wide (Soltis, 2017). Many of ...
    • eDNA-based biomonitoring at an experimental German vineyard to characterize how management regimes shape ecosystem diversity 

      Agerbo Rasmussen, Jacob; Nielsen, Martin; Mak, Sarah Siu Tze; Döring, Johanna; Klincke, Franziska; Gopalakrishnan, Shyam; Dunn, Robert R.; Kauer, Randolf; Gilbert, Marcus Thomas Pius (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
      There is growing interest in the application of sustainable agricultural methods to minimize the environmental impact of farming and thus aiding quantification of the actual benefit that such approaches may confer. We ...
    • Effects of cattle grazing on young spruce trees in boreal production forest 

      Spedener, Mélanie; Mathisen, Karen Marie; Hauer, Josh; Hérault, Rémi; Austrheim, Gunnar; Tofastrud, Morten; Zimmermann, Barbara (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2024)