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Vasco Elbrecht

Summary

I develop and test DNA metabarcoding methods for assessment of stream ecosystems!

Bioinformatics Conservation Biology Ecology Evolutionary Studies Freshwater Biology Genetics Genomics Molecular Biology Zoology

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University of Guelph

Work details

PostDoc

University of Guelph

October 2017

Centre for Biodiversity Genomics

Metabarcoding methods development

PhD student

Ruhr University Bochum

Dept. Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity

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PeerJ Contributions

October 7, 2019

Validation of COI metabarcoding primers for terrestrial arthropods

10 citations

842 downloads

3,095 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Thomas W.A. Braukmann, Natalia V. Ivanova, Sean W.J. Prosser, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Michael Wright, Evgeny V. Zakharov, Paul D.N. Hebert, Dirk Steinke

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7745 PubMed 31608170

April 9, 2018

Estimating intraspecific genetic diversity from community DNA metabarcoding data

36 citations

1,099 downloads

4,584 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Ecaterina Edith Vamos, Dirk Steinke, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4644 PubMed 29666773

April 19, 2016

Testing the potential of a ribosomal 16S marker for DNA metabarcoding of insects

56 citations

1,493 downloads

6,071 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Pierre Taberlet, Tony Dejean, Alice Valentini, Philippe Usseglio-Polatera, Jean-Nicolas Beisel, Eric Coissac, Frederic Boyer, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1966 PubMed 27114891

September 27, 2019 - Version: 2

Using environmental DNA to monitor the reintroduction success of the Rhine sculpin (Cottus rhenanus) in a restored stream

853 downloads

982 views

Christopher A Hempel, Bianca Peinert, Arne J Beermann, Vasco Elbrecht, Jan-Niklas Macher, Till-Hendrik Macher, Gunnar Jacobs, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27574v2

July 15, 2019 - Version: 2

Validation of COI metabarcoding primers for terrestrial arthropods

2,199 downloads

2,555 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Thomas WA Braukmann, Natalia V Ivanova, Sean WJ Prosser, Mehrdad Hajibabaei, Michael Wright, Evgeny V Zakharov, Paul DN Hebert, Dirk Steinke

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27801v2

July 12, 2019 - Version: 1

A new primer for metabarcoding of spider gut contents

734 downloads

1,050 views

Denis Lafage, Vasco Elbrecht, Jordan Cuff, Dirk Steinke, Peter Hambäck, Ann Erlandsson

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27854v1

September 6, 2018 - Version: 5

Scaling up DNA metabarcoding for freshwater macrozoobenthos monitoring

2,536 downloads

3,388 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Dirk Steinke

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3456v5

March 23, 2018 - Version: 1

Slippage of degenerate primers can cause variation in amplicon length

309 downloads

644 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Paul D.N. Hebert, Dirk Steinke

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.26763v1

March 23, 2018 - Version: 4

Estimating intraspecific genetic diversity from community DNA metabarcoding data

1,397 downloads

2,760 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Ecaterina Edith Vamos, Dirk Steinke, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3269v4

August 9, 2017 - Version: 2

Short COI markers for freshwater macroinvertebrate metabarcoding

1,408 downloads

1,569 views

Ecaterina Edith Vamos, Vasco Elbrecht, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3037v2

May 29, 2017 - Version: 3

Sorting things out - assessing effects of unequal specimen biomass on DNA metabarcoding

1,120 downloads

2,746 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Bianca Peinert, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2561v3

March 22, 2017 - Version: 3

Assessing strengths and weaknesses of DNA metabarcoding based macroinvertebrate identification for routine stream monitoring

1,826 downloads

2,891 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Edith Vamos, Kristian Meissner, Jukka Aroviita, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2759v3

March 22, 2017 - Version: 5

Validation and development of COI metabarcoding primers for freshwater macroinvertebrate bioassessment

4,347 downloads

6,558 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2044v5

August 15, 2016 - Version: 1

PrimerMiner: an R package for development and in silico validation of DNA metabarcoding primers

880 downloads

1,103 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.2352v1

March 13, 2016 - Version: 1

Testing the potential of a ribosomal 16S marker for DNA metabarcoding of insects

448 downloads

1,422 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Pierre Taberlet, Tony Dejean, Alice Valentini, Philippe Usseglio-polatera, Jean-nicolas Beisel, Eric Coissac, Frederic Boyer, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1855v1

May 1, 2015 - Version: 1

Can DNA-based ecosystem assessments quantify species abundance? Testing primer bias and biomass - sequence relationships with an innovative metabarcoding protocol

1,106 downloads

2,134 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Florian Leese

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1023v1