Conservation Genetics Resources

Abstract The invasive Asian tiger mosquito ( Aedes albopictus ) poses significant health risks for society and nature. Its rapid spread in urban areas requires efficient and cost-effective surveillance. While primarily developed for water samples, eDNA-based mosquito surveillance shows potential in detecting Ae. albopictus through aerial eDNA. We prove that aerial eDNA from Ae. albopictus can be …

Buccal swabs offer a minimally invasive DNA sampling method for wildlife but are often considered suboptimal for genomic applications due to low and variable DNA yields. This limitation has restricted their use in reduced-representation sequencing approaches, which typically require relatively high DNA input mass. We evaluated the utility of buccal swabs collected from Red-cockaded Woodpecker (Dr…

Abstract Nine out of the ten most commonly seized CITES-listed reptiles are tortoises and freshwater turtles. It is often necessary to prove the geographic origin of these animals, which may be challenging when using only morphological characters. Molecular tools are needed to detect and prove illegal wildlife trade. Therefore, in this study, we developed a set of DNA markers for one species of T…

The modern concept of DNA-based barcoding for cataloguing biodiversity was proposed in 2003 by first adopting an approximately 600 bp fragment of the mitochondrial <i>COI</i> gene to compare via nucleotide alignments with known sequences from specimens previously identified by taxonomists. Other standardized regions meeting barcoding criteria then are also evolving as DNA barcodes for fast, relia…