ArticlePeerJ2023
Aircraft surveys for air eDNA: probing biodiversity in the sky.
Article in PeerJ, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
- Vertebrate biodiversity via eDNA at the air-water interface.iScience · 2026Article
- Advancing airborne eDNA sampling methods for monitoring diverse terrestrial vertebrate communities.Communications biology · 2026Article
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- Environmental DNA (eDNA) Technology in Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health Research: Advances and Prospects.Ecology and evolution · 2026Review
- Airborne eDNA captures three decades of ecosystem biodiversity.Nature communications · 2025Article
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- Sequencing airborne DNA to monitor crop pathogens and pests.iScience · 2025Article
- Shotgun sequencing of airborne eDNA achieves rapid assessment of whole biomes, population genetics and genomic variation.Nature ecology & evolution · 2025Article
- From air to insight: the evolution of airborne DNA sequencing technologies.Microbiology (Reading, England) · 2025Review
- Evaluation of Oxford Nanopore Technologies MinION Sequencer as a Novel Short Amplicon Metabarcoding Tool Using Arthropod Mock Sample and Irish Bat Diet Characterisation.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Laboratory and In-Field Metagenomics for Environmental Monitoring.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2025Article
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Abstract
Air is a medium for dispersal of environmental DNA (eDNA) carried in bioaerosols, yet the atmosphere is mostly unexplored as a source of genetic material encompassing all domains of life. In this study, we designed and deployed a robust, sterilizable hardware system for airborne nucleic acid capture featuring active filtration of a quantifiable, controllable volume of air and a high-integrity chamber to protect the sample from loss or contamination. We used our hardware system on an aircraft across multiple height transects over major aerosolization sources to collect air eDNA, coupled with high-throughput amplicon sequencing using multiple DNA metabarcoding markers targeting bacteria, plants, and vertebrates to test the hypothesis of large-scale genetic presence of these bioaerosols throughout the planetary boundary layer in the lower troposphere. Here, we demonstrate that the multi-taxa DNA assemblages inventoried up to 2,500 m using our airplane-mounted hardware system are reflective of major aerosolization sources in the survey area and show previously unreported airborne species detections (
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