FN Archimer Export Format PT J TI Comparing the performance of 12S mitochondrial primers for fish environmental DNA across ecosystems BT AF Polanco F., Andrea Richards, Eilísh Flück, Benjamin Valentini, Alice Altermatt, Florian Brosse, Sébastien Walser, Jean‐Claude Eme, David Marques, Virginie Manel, Stéphanie Albouy, Camille Dejean, Tony Pellissier, Loïc AS 1:1;2:2,3;3:2,3;4:4;5:5,6;6:7;7:2;8:8;9:9;10:9;11:8;12:4;13:2,3; FF 1:;2:;3:;4:;5:;6:;7:;8:PDG-RBE-EMH;9:;10:;11:PDG-RBE-EMH;12:;13:; C1 Museo de Historia Natural Marina de Colombia (MHNMC) Programa de Biodiversidad y Ecosistemas Marinos Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras‐INVEMAR Santa Marta, Colombia Landscape Ecology Department of Environmental Systems Science Institute of Terrestrial Ecosystems ETH Zürich Zürich ,Switzerland Unit of Land Change Science Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL Birmensdorf, Switzerland SPYGEN Le Bourget‐du‐Lac, France Eawag Department of Aquatic Ecology Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology Dübendorf, Switzerland Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies University of Zurich Zürich, Switzerland Laboratoire Evolution et Diversité Biologique (EDB) Université de Toulouse CNRS ENFA UPS Toulouse, France Unité Ecologie et Modèles pour l'Halieutique EMH IFREMER Nantes, France CEFE Univ Montpellier CNRS EPHE‐PSL University IRD Univ Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 Montpellier ,France C2 MHNMC, COLOMBIA ETH ZURICH, SWITZERLAND SWISS FED RES INST WSL, SWITZERLAND SPYGEN, FRANCE EAWAG, SWITZERLAND UNIV ZURICH, SWITZERLAND UNIV TOULOUSE, FRANCE IFREMER, FRANCE UNIV MONTPELLIER, FRANCE SI NANTES SE PDG-RBE-EMH IN DOAJ TC 0 UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00704/81590/86079.pdf https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00704/81590/86080.docx LA English DT Article DE ;biodiversity;biomonitoring;environmental DNA;fishes;in silico PCR;neural network AB Through the development of environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding, in situ monitoring of organisms is becoming easier and promises a revolution in our approaches to detect changes in biodiversity over space and time. A cornerstone of eDNA approach is the development of primer pairs that allow amplifying the DNA of specific taxonomic groups, which is then used to link the DNA sequence to taxonomic identification. Here, we propose a framework for comparing primer pairs regarding (a) their capacity to bind and amplify a broad coverage of species within the target clade using in silico PCR, (b) their capacity to not only discriminate between species but also genera or families, and (c) their in situ specificity and efficiency across a variety of environments. As a case study, we focus on two mitochondrial 12S primer pairs, MiFish-U and teleo, which were designed to amplify fishes. We found that the performance of in silico PCRs were high for both primer pairs, but teleo amplified more genera across Actinopterygii, Chondrichthyes, and Petromyzontomorphi than MiFish-U. In contrast, the discriminatory power for species, genera, and families were higher for MiFish-U than teleo, likely associated with the greater length of the amplified DNA fragments. The evaluation of their in situ efficiency showed a higher recovered species richness of teleo compared to MiFish-U in tropical and temperate freshwater environments, but that generally both teleo and MiFish-U primers pairs perform well to monitor fish species. Since more species were detected when used together, those primer pairs are best used in combination to increase the ability of species detection. PY 2021 PD NOV SO Environmental DNA SN 2637-4943 PU Wiley VL 3 IS 6 BP 1113 EP 1127 DI 10.1002/edn3.232 ID 81590 ER EF