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Vasco Elbrecht

ORCID: 0000-0003-4672-7099

Summary

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

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

Institution affiliations

University of Guelph

Work details

PhD student

Ruhr University Bochum

Dept. Animal Ecology, Evolution and Biodiversity

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PeerJ Contributions

April 19, 2016

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

8 citations

656 downloads

2,285 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 19, 2017 - Version: 1

Assessing intraspecific genetic diversity from community DNA metabarcoding data

112 downloads

514 views

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

https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3269v1

August 9, 2017 - Version: 2

Short COI markers for freshwater macroinvertebrate metabarcoding

165 downloads

595 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

332 downloads

1,410 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

469 downloads

1,358 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

1,205 downloads

2,943 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

395 downloads

539 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

174 downloads

808 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

705 downloads

1,425 views

Vasco Elbrecht, Florian Leese

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