ReviewEnvironmental science & technology2022
The Multiple States of Environmental DNA and What Is Known about Their Persistence in Aquatic Environments.
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41 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Substrate-Dependent Variation in Environmental DNA Persistence and Degradation From a Small Mammal.Molecular ecology resources · 2026Article
- Impact of Rainfall on Aquatic and Terrestrial Species Monitoring Using Riverine Environmental DNA.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Humic acid's sheltering effect paradoxically promotes antibiotic resistance gene dissemination during peroxymonosulfate water treatment.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Properties and Limitations of eDNA Substrates for Terrestrial Animal Monitoring.Molecular ecology resources · 2026Review
- Harnessing Population Genomics, Gut Microbiota, and Environmental DNA Surveillance for the Conservation of Chinese Spotted Seals in a Changing World.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
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- Biomonitoring in the Anthropocene: Urban estuary environmental DNA tracks marine fish, terrestrial wildlife, and human diet.PloS one · 2026Article
- Synthesized double stranded gene fragments are not suitable for qPCR endogenous control spike-ins.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- State-Specific Extraction of Environmental DNA: Spike-and-Recovery Controls to Validate and Optimise Extraction Protocols.Environmental microbiology · 2025Article
- Monitoring biodiversity and detection of diverse vertebrate species with mosquito blood meal analysis at the DeLuca Preserve, Florida, USA.Scientific reports · 2025Article
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Abstract
Increased use of environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis for indirect species detection has spurred the need to understand eDNA persistence in the environment. Understanding the persistence of eDNA is complex because it exists in a mixture of different states (e.g., dissolved, particle adsorbed, intracellular, and intraorganellar), and each state is expected to have a specific decay rate that depends on environmental parameters. Thus, improving knowledge about eDNA conversion rates between states and the reactions that degrade eDNA in different states is needed. Here, we focus on eukaryotic extraorganismal eDNA, outline how water chemistry and suspended mineral particles likely affect conversion among each eDNA state, and indicate how environmental parameters affect persistence of states in the water column. On the basis of deducing these controlling parameters, we synthesized the eDNA literature to assess whether we could already derive a general understanding of eDNA states persisting in the environment. However, we found that these parameters are often not being measured or reported when measured, and in many cases very few experimental data exist from which to draw conclusions. Therefore, further study of how environmental parameters affect eDNA state conversion and eDNA decay in aquatic environments is needed. We recommend analytic controls that can be used during the processing of water to assess potential losses of different eDNA states if all were present in a water sample, and we outline future experimental work that would help determine the dominant eDNA states in water.
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