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Overview

Bruce E. Deagle is affiliated with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in Australia. Their research primarily spans the fields of Environmental Science and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with particular focus on subfields such as Ecology, Molecular Biology, Genetics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Aquatic Science.

Deagle's work centers on topics including Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Identification and Quantification in Food, Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Genetic and Phenotypic Traits in Livestock, and Marine Animal Studies Overview.

Frequent publication venues for Deagle include Environmental DNA, Molecular Ecology, Scientific Data, Diversity and Distributions, and Cell. These venues reflect the interdisciplinary nature of their research related to environmental monitoring, molecular biology techniques, and biodiversity assessments.

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Deagle include:

  • "Capturing open ocean biodiversity: Comparing environmental DNA metabarcoding to the continuous plankton recorder" (2020, Molecular Ecology)
  • "The enormous repetitive Antarctic krill genome reveals environmental adaptations and population insights" (2023, Cell)
  • "Revision and annotation of DNA barcode records for marine invertebrates: report of the 8th iBOL conference hackathon" (2021, Metabarcoding and Metagenomics)
  • "Environmental DNA metabarcoding for monitoring metazoan biodiversity in Antarctic nearshore ecosystems" (2021, PeerJ)
  • "Data on the diets of Salish Sea harbour seals from DNA metabarcoding" (2022, Scientific Data)

Deagle often collaborates with several researchers, including Andrea Polanowski, L. Suter, Laurence J. Clarke, Adriana Radulovici, and Pedro E. Vieira, reflecting ongoing cooperative efforts in environmental DNA and molecular ecology research.

Best Publications

  • Who is eating what: diet assessment using next generation sequencing.

    Francois Pompanon;Bruce E. Deagle;Bruce E. Deagle;William Oliver Christian Symondson;David Steven Brown

  • Counting with DNA in metabarcoding studies: How should we convert sequence reads to dietary data?

    Bruce E. Deagle;Austen C. Thomas;Julie C. McInnes;Laurence J. Clarke;Laurence J. Clarke

  • DNA metabarcoding and the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I marker: Not a perfect match

    Bruce E. Deagle;Simon N. Jarman;Eric Coissac;François Pompanon;François Pompanon

  • Analysis of Australian fur seal diet by pyrosequencing prey DNA in faeces.

    Bruce E. Deagle;Roger Kirkwood;Simon N. Jarman

  • Quantification of damage in DNA recovered from highly degraded samples – a case study on DNA in faeces

    Bruce E Deagle;Bruce E Deagle;J Paige Eveson;Simon N Jarman

  • DNA metabarcoding-Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions.

    Lucie Zinger;Aurélie Bonin;Inger G. Alsos;Miklós Bálint

  • Molecular scatology as a tool to study diet: analysis of prey DNA in scats from captive Steller sea lions.

    B. E. Deagle;D. J. Tollit;S. N. Jarman;M. A. Hindell

  • Pyrosequencing faecal DNA to determine diet of little penguins: is what goes in what comes out?

    Bruce E. Deagle;André Chiaradia;Julie McInnes;Simon N. Jarman

  • Studying Seabird Diet through Genetic Analysis of Faeces: A Case Study on Macaroni Penguins (Eudyptes chrysolophus)

    Bruce E. Deagle;Bruce E. Deagle;Nick J. Gales;Karen Evans;Simon N. Jarman

  • Specific Detection of Pacific Oyster ( Crassostrea gigas ) Larvae in Plankton Samples Using Nested Polymerase Chain Reaction

    Jawahar G. Patil;Rasanthi M. Gunasekera;Bruce E. Deagle;Nicholas J. Bax

  • A Genome-wide SNP Genotyping Array Reveals Patterns of Global and Repeated Species-Pair Divergence in Sticklebacks

    Felicity C. Jones;Yingguang Frank Chan;Jeremy Schmutz;Jane Grimwood

  • Quantifying sequence proportions in a DNA-based diet study using Ion Torrent amplicon sequencing: which counts count?

    Bruce E. Deagle;Austen C. Thomas;Amanda K. Shaffer;Andrew W. Trites

  • Quantitative DNA metabarcoding: improved estimates of species proportional biomass using correction factors derived from control material.

    Austen C. Thomas;Bruce E. Deagle;J. Paige Eveson;Corie H. Harsch

  • Group-specific polymerase chain reaction for DNA-based analysis of species diversity and identity in dietary samples.

    S. N. Jarman;B. E. Deagle;B. E. Deagle;N. J. Gales

  • Effect of marker choice and thermal cycling protocol on zooplankton DNA metabarcoding studies

    Laurence J. Clarke;Laurence J. Clarke;Jason M. Beard;Kerrie M. Swadling;Kerrie M. Swadling;Bruce E. Deagle;Bruce E. Deagle

  • Quantitative analysis of prey DNA in pinniped faeces: potential to estimate diet composition?

    Bruce E. Deagle;Bruce E. Deagle;Dominic J. Tollit

  • Population genomics of parallel phenotypic evolution in stickleback across stream–lake ecological transitions

    Bruce E. Deagle;Felicity C. Jones;Yingguang F. Chan;Devin M. Absher

  • Adélie penguin population diet monitoring by analysis of food DNA in scats

    Simon N. Jarman;Julie C. McInnes;Cassandra Faux;Andrea M. Polanowski

  • Optimised scat collection protocols for dietary DNA metabarcoding in vertebrates

    Julie C. McInnes;Julie C. McInnes;Rachael Alderman;Bruce E. Deagle;Mary-Anne Lea

  • Improving accuracy of DNA diet estimates using food tissue control materials and an evaluation of proxies for digestion bias.

    Austen C. Thomas;Simon N. Jarman;Katherine H. Haman;Andrew W. Trites

  • Evaluation and application of microsatellite and major histocompatibility complex variation for stock identification of coho salmon in British Columbia

    Terry D. Beacham;John R. Candy;K. Janine Supernault;Tobi Ming

Frequent Co-Authors

Simon N. Jarman
Simon N. Jarman University of Western Australia
Mark A. Hindell
Mark A. Hindell University of Tasmania
Andrew W. Trites
Andrew W. Trites University of British Columbia
Nicholas J. Gales
Nicholas J. Gales Australian Antarctic Division
Ben Raymond
Ben Raymond Australian Antarctic Division
David M. Kingsley
David M. Kingsley Stanford University
Clive R. McMahon
Clive R. McMahon University of Tasmania
So Kawaguchi
So Kawaguchi Australian Antarctic Division
Pierre Taberlet
Pierre Taberlet Grenoble Alpes University
Thomas E. Reimchen
Thomas E. Reimchen University of Victoria

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