Exploring video and eDNA metabarcoding methods to assess oyster aquaculture cages as fish habitat

eDNA-based metabarcoding as a monitoring tool for fish in large lakes

Fish community assessment with eDNA metabarcoding: effects of sampling design and bioinformatic filtering

Species richness is a metric of biodiversity that represents the number of species present in a community. Traditional fisheries assessments that rely on capture of organisms often underestimate true species richness. Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding is an alternative tool that infers species richness by collecting and sequencing DNA present in the ecosystem. Our objective was to determin...

Biomonitoring of marine vertebrates in Monterey Bay using eDNA metabarcoding

Molecular analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) can be used to assess vertebrate biodiversity in aquatic systems, but limited work has applied eDNA technologies to marine waters. Further, there is limited understanding of the spatial distribution of vertebrate eDNA in marine waters. Here, we use an eDNA metabarcoding approach to target and amplify a hypervariable region of the mitochondrial 12S ...

Aquaculture and Fish Health

Introduction Fish has an enormous value as the most frequent source of animal protein for the major part of the humans, especially in countries during rapid development in Asia and Africa. All fish species are a part of the local ecology and as such has a biological and environmental importance. Fishing also gives a great pleasure to sport fishermen around the world and at the same time contrib...

Transgenic fish and aquaculture

Transgenic fish species can be routinely produced by transferring foreign DNA into developing embryos via microinjection or electroporation. This technology offers an excellent opportunity for modifying or improving the genetic traits of commercially important Fishes, mollusks, and crustaceans for aquaculture. Studies have shown that administration of recombinant fish or mammalian growth hormon...