Keiichi Sato

TL;DR: The metabarcoding approach presented here is non-invasive, more efficient, more cost-effective and more sensitive than the traditional survey methods and has the potential to serve as an alternative tool for biodiversity monitoring that revolutionizes natural resource management and ecological studies of fish communities on larger spatial and temporal scales.

TL;DR: A thorough genome annotation revealed Hox C genes previously hypothesized to have been lost, as well as distinct gene repertories of opsins and olfactory receptors that would be associated with adaptation to unique underwater niches, and provided insights on the molecular basis of adaptation to underwater lifestyle and the evolutionary origins of vertebrates.

TL;DR: The results presented here show that the eDNA metabarcoding approach is also promising even for forest mammal biodiversity surveys, and suggests that MiMammal primers are capable of amplifying and distinguishing a diverse group of mammalian species.

TL;DR: A protocol for filtration of water samples using the filter cartridge and extraction of eDNA from the filter without having to cut open the housing is provided.

TL;DR: It is illustrated how the error rates in the eDNA metabarcoding-based species detection can be accounted for by applying the multispecies occupancy modelling framework to study the optimum conditions for molecular experiments.