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Vasco Elbrecht

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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

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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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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

Does it make sense to call your pipeline an R-package?

accepted can you explain me the puzzles?