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Owen Wangensteen
PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer
1,480 Points

Contributions by role

Author 335
Preprint Author 35
Reviewer 210
Editor 900

Contributions by subject area

Biodiversity
Ecology
Genomics
Marine Biology
Zoology
Bioinformatics
Molecular Biology
Ecosystem Science
Entomology
Forestry
Aquaculture, Fisheries and Fish Science
Genetics
Biotechnology
Conservation Biology
Freshwater Biology
Microbiology
Animal Behavior
Biogeography
Population Biology

Owen S Wangensteen

PeerJ Editor, Author & Reviewer

Summary

PhD in Biology, PhD in Chemistry. Lecturer in Marine Zoology at the Dpt. of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, University of Barcelona

Research interests include: eukaryotic metabarcoding, marine molecular ecology, marine biodiversity, phylogeography, and bioinformatics.

Biodiversity Bioinformatics Ecology Genomics Marine Biology Zoology

Editorial Board Member

PeerJ - the Journal of Life & Environmental Sciences

Past or current institution affiliations

UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Universitat de Barcelona
University of Salford

Work details

Lecturer

Universitat de Barcelona
September 2022
Evolutionary Biology, Ecology & Environmental Sciences

Websites

  • Google Scholar

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 3
  • Preprints 1
  • Edited 5
  • Reviewed 5
January 19, 2022
DnoisE: distance denoising by entropy. An open-source parallelizable alternative for denoising sequence datasets
Adrià Antich, Creu Palacín, Xavier Turon, Owen S. Wangensteen
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12758 PubMed 35111399
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
December 21, 2016
Spatio-temporal monitoring of deep-sea communities using metabarcoding of sediment DNA and RNA
Magdalena Guardiola, Owen S. Wangensteen, Pierre Taberlet, Eric Coissac, María Jesús Uriz, Xavier Turon
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2807 PubMed 28028473
November 23, 2017 - Version: 1
Metabarcoding littoral hard-bottom communities: unexpected diversity and database gaps revealed by two molecular markers
Owen S Wangensteen, Creu Palacín, Magdalena Guardiola, Xavier Turon
https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3429v1

Academic Editor on

January 4, 2022
Seasonal variations and co-occurrence networks of bacterial communities in the water and sediment of artificial habitat in Laoshan Bay, China
Guangjie Fang, Haolin Yu, Huaxiang Sheng, Chuanxi Chen, Yanli Tang, Zhenlin Liang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.12705 PubMed 35036171
July 1, 2021
Dumpster diving for diatom plastid 16S rRNA genes
Krista L. Bonfantine, Stacey M. Trevathan-Tackett, Ty G. Matthews, Ana Neckovic, Han Ming Gan
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11576 PubMed 34249491
March 19, 2021
DNA metabarcoding of zooplankton communities: species diversity and seasonal variation revealed by 18S rRNA and COI
Lina Zhao, Xue Zhang, Mengyue Xu, Ying Mao, Yuan Huang
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.11057 PubMed 33777533
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
August 12, 2020
Larval longevity and competency patterns of Caribbean reef-building corals
Margaret W. Miller, Allan J. Bright, Rachel E. Pausch, Dana E. Williams
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9705

Signed reviews submitted for articles published in PeerJ Note that some articles may not have the review itself made public unless authors have made them open as well.

April 14, 2025
Advancing molecular macrobenthos biodiversity monitoring: a comparison between Oxford Nanopore and Illumina based metabarcoding and metagenomics
Karlijn Doorenspleet, Amalia Aikaterini Mailli, Berry B. van der Hoorn, Kevin K. Beentjes, Annelies De Backer, Sofie Derycke, Albertinka J. Murk, Henning Reiss, Reindert Nijland
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19158 PubMed 40247828
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
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
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
February 28, 2017
Spatial distribution of environmental DNA in a nearshore marine habitat
James L. O’Donnell, Ryan P. Kelly, Andrew Olaf Shelton, Jameal F. Samhouri, Natalie C. Lowell, Gregory D. Williams
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3044 PubMed 28265513