A5064091697- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- RNA Research and Splicing
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Mitochondrial Function and Pathology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Epigenetics and DNA Methylation
- Identification and Quantification in Food
University of Geneva
2016
Since the 1960 s, there has been a rapid expansion of drilling activities in central and northern Adriatic Sea to meet increasing global energy demand. The discharges organic inorganic pollutants, as well alteration sediment substrate, are among main impacts associated with these activities. In present study, we evaluate response benthic foraminifera three gas platforms northwestern Sea, special focus on Armida A platform for which extensive geochemical data (organic matter, trace elements,...
Since 2010, considerable efforts have been undertaken to monitor the environmental status of European marine waters and ensuring development methodological standards for evaluation this status. However, current routine biomonitoring implicates time-consuming costly manual sorting morphological identification benthic macrofauna. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding represents an alternative traditional monitoring method with very promising results. Here, we tested it further by performing...
Selective transport of pyruvate across the inner mitochondrial membrane by carrier (MPC) is a fundamental step that couples cytosolic and metabolism. The recent molecular identification MPC complex has revealed two interacting subunits, MPC1 MPC2. Although in yeast, an additional subunit, MPC3, can functionally replace MPC2, no alternative subunits have been described higher eukaryotes. Here, we report for first time existence novel subunit termed MPC1-like (MPC1L), which present uniquely...
Abstract This study is the first assessment of a fjord Ecological Quality Status (EcoQS) by comparing both traditional morphology‐based and emerging metabarcoding techniques in benthic foraminifera. For this, we focus on historically polluted Idefjord Swedish Norwegian border, which has experienced high effluent load from pulp paper mill for almost century. Based our results, morphological data was more sensitive to “naturally stressed” conditions, like course sediments cascading water...
During the last decade, considerable efforts have been undertaken to achieve a “good ecological status” of European coastal waters and ensuring development methodological standards for evaluation this status. However, current routine biomonitoring implicates time-consuming costly manual sorting morphological identification benthic macrofauna. In our study, we tested performance environmental DNA metabarcoding targeting microbial communities meiofauna as an alternative traditional...