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Xavier Pochon
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Author 1,280
Preprint Author 105
Editor 4,600

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Ecology
Evolutionary Studies
Marine Biology
Molecular Biology
Taxonomy
Zoology
Bioinformatics
Environmental Sciences
Environmental Impacts
Biodiversity
Climate Change Biology
Biotechnology
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Ecosystem Science
Freshwater Biology
Environmental Contamination and Remediation
Computational Science
Genetics
Genomics
Microbiology
Biochemistry
Conservation Biology
Biological Oceanography
Animal Behavior
Biogeography
Entomology
Coupled Natural and Human Systems
Spatial and Geographic Information Science
Natural Resource Management
Science and Medical Education
Developmental Biology
Biogeochemistry
Population Biology
Forestry
Cell Biology
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Xavier Pochon

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

Team Leader, Molecular Surveillance, Biosecurity Group, Cawthron Institute, New Zealand.
Associate Professor, Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand.

My research at the Cawthron Institute is highly applied and consist of developing multi-trophic metabarcoding tools for environmental monitoring of marine industries (e.g. aquaculture farms, deep-sea mining, and marine biosecurity in ports and marinas).

At the University of Auckland, I combine 'real-world' and 'blue-sky' research applications, including; i) investigating the functional underpinnings of symbiotic dinoflagellate communities in tropical soritid foraminifera, corals and giant clams, ii) characterizing the functional role of microbiomes in aquaculture settings (e.g. oysters, salmon), iii) unravelling the eDNA secrets of 10% (380) of New Zealand lakes (www.lakes380.com), iv) studying preferential settlement of marine invasive species associated with plastic polymers (microplastics), and v) exploring the diversity and dynamics of open-ocean plankton communities in the South-West Pacific.

Aquaculture, Fisheries & Fish Science Biodiversity Bioengineering Biogeography Biological Oceanography Climate Change Biology Conservation Biology Databases Ecology Ecosystem Science Environmental Health Environmental Impacts Evolutionary Studies Freshwater Biology Genetics Genomics Marine Biology Microbiology Molecular Biology Natural Resource Management Omics Technologies Science Policy Taxonomy Zoology

Editing Journals

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Auckland

Work details

Team Leader

Cawthron Institute
January 2012
Molecular Surveillance Team, Biosecurity Group

Associate Professor

University of Auckland
February 2015
Institute of Marine Science

Websites

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  • UoA profile
  • Cawthron profile
  • Research Gate

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 10
  • Preprints 2
  • Edited 40
May 2, 2023
Optimal sample type and number vary in small shallow lakes when targeting non-native fish environmental DNA
Maïlys H.V. Picard, Anastasija Zaiko, Annabel M. Tidy, David J. Kelly, Georgia Thomson-Laing, Shaun P. Wilkinson, Xavier Pochon, Marcus J. Vandergoes, Ian Hawes, Susanna A. Wood
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15210 PubMed 37151294
December 19, 2022
Does plastic type matter? Insights into non-indigenous marine larvae recruitment under controlled conditions
François Audrézet, Anastasija Zaiko, Patrick Cahill, Olivier Champeau, Louis A. Tremblay, Dawn Smith, Susanna A. Wood, Gavin Lear, Xavier Pochon
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14549 PubMed 36570004
September 27, 2021
Development of droplet digital Polymerase Chain Reaction assays for the detection of long-finned (Anguilla dieffenbachii) and short-finned (Anguilla australis) eels in environmental samples
Georgia Thomson-Laing, Russleigh Parai, Laura T. Kelly, Xavier Pochon, Rewi Newnham, Marcus J. Vandergoes, Jamie D. Howarth, Susanna A. Wood
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12157 PubMed 34692247
October 27, 2020
Comparing sediment DNA extraction methods for assessing organic enrichment associated with marine aquaculture
John K. Pearman, Nigel B. Keeley, Susanna A. Wood, Olivier Laroche, Anastasija Zaiko, Georgia Thomson-Laing, Laura Biessy, Javier Atalah, Xavier Pochon
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10231 PubMed 33194417
May 13, 2019
Towards an in-depth characterization of Symbiodiniaceae in tropical giant clams via metabarcoding of pooled multi-gene amplicons
Xavier Pochon, Patricia Wecker, Michael Stat, Véronique Berteaux-Lecellier, Gaël Lecellier
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6898 PubMed 31139503
June 25, 2018
Effects of temperature and salinity stress on DNA methylation in a highly invasive marine invertebrate, the colonial ascidian Didemnum vexillum
Nicola A. Hawes, Louis A. Tremblay, Xavier Pochon, Brendon Dunphy, Andrew E. Fidler, Kirsty F. Smith
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5003 PubMed 29967721
May 23, 2018
An improved primer set and amplification protocol with increased specificity and sensitivity targeting the Symbiodinium ITS2 region
Benjamin C.C. Hume, Maren Ziegler, Julie Poulain, Xavier Pochon, Sarah Romac, Emilie Boissin, Colomban de Vargas, Serge Planes, Patrick Wincker, Christian R. Voolstra
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4816 PubMed 29844969
May 17, 2017
Metabarcoding monitoring analysis: the pros and cons of using co-extracted environmental DNA and RNA data to assess offshore oil production impacts on benthic communities
Olivier Laroche, Susanna A. Wood, Louis A. Tremblay, Gavin Lear, Joanne I. Ellis, Xavier Pochon
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3347 PubMed 28533985
August 20, 2015
Environmental influences on the Indo–Pacific octocoral Isis hippuris Linnaeus 1758 (Alcyonacea: Isididae): genetic fixation or phenotypic plasticity?
Sonia J. Rowley, Xavier Pochon, Les Watling
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1128 PubMed 26312170
May 20, 2014
Multi-gene analysis of Symbiodinium dinoflagellates: a perspective on rarity, symbiosis, and evolution
Xavier Pochon, Hollie M. Putnam, Ruth D. Gates
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.394 PubMed 24883254
January 9, 2019 - Version: 2
Towards an in-depth characterization of Symbiodiniaceae in tropical giant clams via metabarcoding of pooled multi-gene amplicons
Xavier Pochon, Patricia Wecker, Michael Stat, Veronique Berteaux-Lecellier, Gael Lecellier
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.27313v2
March 4, 2014 - Version: 1
Multi-gene analysis of the symbiotic and free-living dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium
Xavier Pochon, Hollie M Putnam, Ruth D Gates
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.267v1

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March 23, 2023
Integrating eDNA and citizen science observations to model distribution of a temperate freshwater turtle near its northern range limit
Wenxi Feng, Stephen C. Lougheed
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.15120 PubMed 36987453
March 14, 2023
Transition of an estuarine benthic meiofauna assemblage 1.7 and 2.8 years after a mining disaster
Gabriel Coppo, Fabiano S. Pais, Tiago O. Ferreira, Ken M. Halanych, Kyle Donnelly, Ana Carolina Mazzuco, Angelo F. Bernardino
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14992 PubMed 36935931
January 23, 2023
Assessing the breeding phenology of a threatened frog species using eDNA and automatic acoustic monitoring
Ying Chen, Orianne Tournayre, Haolun Tian, Stephen C. Lougheed
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14679 PubMed 36710869
November 2, 2022
Unified methods in collecting, preserving, and archiving coral bleaching and restoration specimens to increase sample utility and interdisciplinary collaboration
Rebecca Vega Thurber, Emily R. Schmeltzer, Andréa G. Grottoli, Robert van Woesik, Robert J. Toonen, Mark Warner, Kerri L. Dobson, Rowan H. McLachlan, Katie Barott, Daniel J. Barshis, Justin Baumann, Leila Chapron, David J. Combosch, Adrienne MS Correa, Thomas M. DeCarlo, Mary Hagedorn, Laetitia Hédouin, Kenneth Hoadley, Thomas Felis, Christine Ferrier-Pagès, Carly Kenkel, Ilsa B. Kuffner, Jennifer Matthews, Mónica Medina, Christopher Meyer, Corinna Oster, James Price, Hollie M. Putnam, Yvonne Sawall
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14176 PubMed 36345483
October 24, 2022
Diversity and distribution of Symbiodiniaceae detected on coral reefs of Lombok, Indonesia using environmental DNA metabarcoding
Arief Pratomo, Dietriech G. Bengen, Neviaty P. Zamani, Christopher Lane, Austin T. Humphries, Erin Borbee, Beginer Subhan, Hawis Madduppa
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.14006 PubMed 36312748
September 21, 2022
DNA metabarcoding reveals that coyotes in New York City consume wide variety of native prey species and human food
Carol S. Henger, Emily Hargous, Christopher M. Nagy, Mark Weckel, Claudia Wultsch, Konstantinos Krampis, Neil Duncan, Linda Gormezano, Jason Munshi-South
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13788 PubMed 36164598
August 23, 2022
Embedding the value of coastal ecosystem services into climate change adaptation planning
Lisa M. Wedding, Sarah Reiter, Monica Moritsch, Eric Hartge, Jesse Reiblich, Don Gourlie, Anne Guerry
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13463 PubMed 36032941
August 5, 2022
Skimming for barcodes: rapid production of mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal repeat reference markers through shallow shotgun sequencing
Mykle L. Hoban, Jonathan Whitney, Allen G. Collins, Christopher Meyer, Katherine R. Murphy, Abigail J. Reft, Katherine E. Bemis
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13790 PubMed 35959477
July 29, 2022
Algae from Aiptasia egesta are robust representations of Symbiodiniaceae in the free-living state
Shumpei Maruyama, Julia R. Unsworth, Valeri Sawiccy, Virginia M. Weis
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13796 PubMed 35923894
May 27, 2022
Challenges of sperm cryopreservation in transferring heat adaptation of corals across ocean basins
Emily J. Howells, Mary Hagedorn, Madeleine J.H. Van Oppen, John A. Burt
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.13395 PubMed 35651741
November 15, 2021
Environmental DNA metabarcoding for monitoring metazoan biodiversity in Antarctic nearshore ecosystems
Laurence J. Clarke, Leonie Suter, Bruce E. Deagle, Andrea M. Polanowski, Aleks Terauds, Glenn J. Johnstone, Jonathan S. Stark
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12458 PubMed 34820189
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
August 24, 2021
A new threat to local marine biodiversity: filamentous mats proliferating at mesophotic depths off Rapa Nui
Javier Sellanes, Matthias Gorny, Germán Zapata-Hernández, Gonzalo Alvarez, Praxedes Muñoz, Fadia Tala
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12052 PubMed 34513338
August 13, 2021
Metabarcoding confirms the opportunistic foraging behaviour of Atlantic bluefin tuna and reveals the importance of gelatinous prey
Babett Günther, Jean-Marc Fromentin, Luisa Metral, Sophie Arnaud-Haond
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11757 PubMed 34447617
August 9, 2021
Using in-situ environmental DNA sampling to detect the invasive New Zealand Mud Snail (Potamopyrgus antipodarum) in freshwaters
Jake J. Ponce, Ivan Arismendi, Austen Thomas
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11835 PubMed 34434646
June 21, 2021
Grab what you can—an evaluation of spatial replication to decrease heterogeneity in sediment eDNA metabarcoding
Jon T. Hestetun, Anders Lanzén, Thomas G. Dahlgren
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11619 PubMed 34221724
December 21, 2020
The positive effect of coexisting ecosystem engineers: a unique seaweed-mussel association provides refuge for native mud crabs against a non-indigenous predator
Paula Tummon Flynn, Keegan McCarvill, K. Devon Lynn, Pedro A. Quijón
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.10540 PubMed 33391877
July 30, 2020
DNA from mollusc shell: a valuable and underutilised substrate for genetic analyses
Sara Ferreira, Rachael Ashby, Gert-Jan Jeunen, Kim Rutherford, Catherine Collins, Erica V. Todd, Neil J. Gemmell
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9420 PubMed 32821530
June 24, 2020
Ocean warming is the key filter for successful colonization of the migrant octocoral Melithaea erythraea (Ehrenberg, 1834) in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Michal Grossowicz, Or M. Bialik, Eli Shemesh, Dan Tchernov, Hubert B. Vonhof, Guy Sisma-Ventura
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9355 PubMed 32612887
June 11, 2020
No evidence that crayfish carcasses produce detectable environmental DNA (eDNA) in a stream enclosure experiment
Amanda N. Curtis, Eric R. Larson
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9333 PubMed 32566410
April 7, 2020
A real-time PCR assay to accurately quantify polar bear DNA in fecal extracts
Kristen M. Hayward, Michelle P. Harwood, Stephen C. Lougheed, Zhengxin Sun, Peter Van Coeverden de Groot, Evelyn L. Jensen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8884 PubMed 32292653
December 2, 2019
The impact of storage conditions on human stool 16S rRNA microbiome composition and diversity
Lauren V. Carruthers, Arinaitwe Moses, Moses Adriko, Christina L. Faust, Edridah M. Tukahebwa, Lindsay J. Hall, Lisa C. Ranford-Cartwright, Poppy H.L. Lamberton
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.8133 PubMed 31824766
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
September 6, 2019
Expanding walls and shrinking beaches: loss of natural coastline in Okinawa Island, Japan
Giovanni Diego Masucci, James D. Reimer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7520 PubMed 31534840
June 14, 2019
Could do better! A high school market survey of fish labelling in Sydney, Australia, using DNA barcodes
Andrew Mitchell, Anna Rothbart, Greta Frankham, Rebecca N. Johnson, Linda E. Neaves
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7138 PubMed 31231598
June 10, 2019
A comparison of impact and risk assessment methods based on the IMO Guidelines and EU invasive alien species risk assessment frameworks
Greta Srėbalienė, Sergej Olenin, Dan Minchin, Aleksas Narščius
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6965 PubMed 31218119
June 4, 2019
Systematic review and meta-analysis of 50 years of coral disease research visualized through the scope of network theory
Luis M. Montilla, Alfredo Ascanio, Alejandra Verde, Aldo Croquer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7041 PubMed 31198644
February 6, 2019
Digging for DNA at depth: rapid universal metabarcoding surveys (RUMS) as a tool to detect coral reef biodiversity across a depth gradient
Joseph D. DiBattista, James D. Reimer, Michael Stat, Giovanni D. Masucci, Piera Biondi, Maarten De Brauwer, Michael Bunce
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6379 PubMed 30755831
December 5, 2018
Simultaneous preservation of the DNA quality, the community composition and the density of freshwater oligochaetes for the development of genetically based biological indices
Régis Vivien, Inge Werner, Benoit J.D. Ferrari
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.6050 PubMed 30568859
September 28, 2018
Functional responses of a cosmopolitan invader demonstrate intraspecific variability in consumer-resource dynamics
Brett R. Howard, Daniel Barrios-O’Neill, Mhairi E. Alexander, Jaimie T.A. Dick, Thomas W. Therriault, Tamara B. Robinson, Isabelle M. Côté
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5634 PubMed 30280022
July 4, 2018
Speciation among sympatric lineages in the genus Palythoa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Zoantharia) revealed by morphological comparison, phylogenetic analyses and investigation of spawning period
Masaru Mizuyama, Giovanni D. Masucci, James D. Reimer
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.5132 PubMed 30013833
June 13, 2018
Can non-destructive DNA extraction of bulk invertebrate samples be used for metabarcoding?
Melissa E. Carew, Rhys A. Coleman, Ary A. Hoffmann
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4980 PubMed 29915700
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
March 6, 2018
The little shrimp that could: phylogeography of the circumtropical Stenopus hispidus (Crustacea: Decapoda), reveals divergent Atlantic and Pacific lineages
‘Ale‘alani Dudoit, Matthew Iacchei, Richard R. Coleman, Michelle R. Gaither, William E. Browne, Brian W. Bowen, Robert J. Toonen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4409 PubMed 29527409
February 8, 2018
A simple molecular technique for distinguishing species reveals frequent misidentification of Hawaiian corals in the genus Pocillopora
Erika C. Johnston, Zac H. Forsman, Robert J. Toonen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4355 PubMed 29441239
October 11, 2017
Light induced intraspecific variability in response to thermal stress in the hard coral Stylophora pistillata
Arjen Tilstra, Tim Wijgerde, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Joana Falcão Salles, Ido Pen, Ronald Osinga, Christian Wild
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3802 PubMed 29038747
January 5, 2017
An updated assessment of Symbiodinium spp. that associate with common scleractinian corals from Moorea (French Polynesia) reveals high diversity among background symbionts and a novel finding of clade B
Héloïse Rouzé, Gaël J. Lecellier, Denis Saulnier, Serge Planes, Yannick Gueguen, Herman H. Wirshing, Véronique Berteaux-Lecellier
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2856 PubMed 28168100
November 10, 2016
Sexual reproduction in the Caribbean coral genus Isophyllia (Scleractinia: Mussidae)
Derek Soto, Ernesto Weil
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2665 PubMed 27867763
October 4, 2016
A comprehensive investigation of mesophotic coral ecosystems in the Hawaiian Archipelago
Richard L. Pyle, Raymond Boland, Holly Bolick, Brian W. Bowen, Christina J. Bradley, Corinne Kane, Randall K. Kosaki, Ross Langston, Ken Longenecker, Anthony Montgomery, Frank A. Parrish, Brian N. Popp, John Rooney, Celia M. Smith, Daniel Wagner, Heather L. Spalding
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2475 PubMed 27761310
November 24, 2015
Assessing the utility of the Oxford Nanopore MinION for snake venom gland cDNA sequencing
Adam D. Hargreaves, John F. Mulley
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1441 PubMed 26623194