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Vasco Elbrecht
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
1,830 Points

Contributions by role

Author 640
Preprint Author 1,085
Reviewer 105
Answers 15

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Conservation Biology
Genetics
Molecular Biology
Zoology
Ecology
Ecosystem Science
Entomology
Forestry
Biogeography
Bioinformatics
Freshwater Biology
Environmental Sciences
Science Policy
Agricultural Science
Biochemistry
Parasitology
Marine Biology
Genomics

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Biodiversity
Conservation-biology
Genetics
Molecular-biology
Zoology

Vasco Elbrecht

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

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

Editing Journals

Past or current institution affiliations

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

Websites

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PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 5
  • Preprints 13
  • Reviewed 2
  • Feedback 1
  • Answers 2
October 5, 2021
Pooling size sorted Malaise trap fractions to maximize taxon recovery with metabarcoding
Vasco Elbrecht, Sarah J. Bourlat, Thomas Hörren, Angie Lindner, Adriana Mordente, Niklas W. Noll, Livia Schäffler, Martin Sorg, Vera M.A. Zizka
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12177 PubMed 34707928
July 26, 2021
A bright idea—metabarcoding arthropods from light fixtures
Vasco Elbrecht, Angie Lindner, Laura Manerus, Dirk Steinke
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11841 PubMed 34395083
October 7, 2019
Validation of COI metabarcoding primers for terrestrial arthropods
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Vasco Elbrecht, Florian Leese
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.1023v1

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September 30, 2021
Highly comparable metabarcoding results from MGI-Tech and Illumina sequencing platforms
Sten Anslan, Vladimir Mikryukov, Kęstutis Armolaitis, Jelena Ankuda, Dagnija Lazdina, Kristaps Makovskis, Lars Vesterdal, Inger Kappel Schmidt, Leho Tedersoo
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12254 PubMed 34703674
May 4, 2018
DNA metabarcoding of littoral hard-bottom communities: high diversity and database gaps revealed by two molecular markers
Owen S. Wangensteen, Creu Palacín, Magdalena Guardiola, Xavier Turon
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4705 PubMed 29740514

Provided feedback on

19 Oct 2016

Validation and development of freshwater invertebrate metabarcoding COI primers for Environmental Impact Assessment

Correction: Annealing temperature was actually 50°C here (we will add the full PCR protocol with the next version of the preprint).

2 Answers

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Does it make sense to call your pipeline an R-package?
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accepted can you explain me the puzzles?