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Overview

Daniel S. Read is affiliated with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology in the United Kingdom. Their research specializes primarily within the field of Environmental Science, encompassing an extensive publication record that includes over one hundred contributions.

Their work spans several subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Pollution
  • Molecular Biology
  • Water Science and Technology
  • Molecular Medicine

Key topics of research addressed in their publications include:

  • Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
  • Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
  • Pharmaceutical and Antibiotic Environmental Impacts
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria
  • Fecal contamination and water quality
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Gut microbiota and health

Frequent publication venues for Daniel S. Read's work are:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • The Science of The Total Environment
  • Water Research
  • Environmental DNA
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

Notable recent papers authored or coauthored by Daniel S. Read include:

  • Identification and Quantification of Microplastics in Potable Water and Their Sources within Water Treatment Works in England and Wales, 2020, Environmental Science & Technology
  • Contrasting community assembly processes structure lotic bacteria metacommunities along the river continuum, 2020, Environmental Microbiology
  • Semi-automated analysis of microplastics in complex wastewater samples, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Systematic review of wastewater surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in human populations, 2022, Environment International
  • Niche and local geography shape the pangenome of wastewater- and livestock-associated Enterobacteriaceae, 2021, Science Advances

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Daniel S. Read include:

  • Hyun S. Gweon
  • Kevin Chau
  • Derrick W. Crook
  • Nicole Stoesser
  • Tim Goodall

Best Publications

  • Molecular analysis of predation: a review of best practice for DNA-based approaches.

    R. A. King;D. S. Read;M. Traugott;M. Traugott;William Oliver Christian Symondson

  • Environmental DNA metabarcoding of lake fish communities reflects long-term data from established survey methods.

    Bernd Hänfling;Lori Lawson Handley;Daniel S. Read;Christoph Hahn

  • PIPITS: an automated pipeline for analyses of fungal internal transcribed spacer sequences from the Illumina sequencing platform

    Hyun S. Gweon;Anna Oliver;Joanne Taylor;Tim Booth

  • Catchment-scale biogeography of riverine bacterioplankton

    Daniel S Read;Hyun S Gweon;Michael J Bowes;Lindsay K Newbold

  • Prospects and challenges of environmental DNA (eDNA) monitoring in freshwater ponds

    Lynsey R. Harper;Andrew S. Buxton;Helen C. Rees;Kat Bruce

  • Identification and Quantification of Microplastics in Potable Water and Their Sources within Water Treatment Works in England and Wales.

    Andrew C. Johnson;Hollie Ball;Richard Cross;Alice A. Horton

  • Contrasting community assembly processes structure lotic bacteria metacommunities along the river continuum

    Hyun S. Gweon;Michael J. Bowes;Heather L. Moorhouse;Anna E. Oliver

  • Semi-automated analysis of microplastics in complex wastewater samples.

    Alice A. Horton;Richard K. Cross;Daniel S. Read;Monika D. Jürgens

  • Temporal and spatial variation in distribution of fish environmental DNA in England’s largest lake

    Lori Lawson Handley;Daniel S. Read;Ian J. Winfield;Helen Kimbell

  • Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding of pond water as a tool to survey conservation and management priority mammals

    Lynsey R. Harper;Lynsey R. Harper;Lori Lawson Handley;Angus I. Carpenter;Muhammad Ghazali

  • The effect of anthropogenic arsenic contamination on the earthworm microbiome

    Daniel Antony Pass;Andrew John Morgan;Daniel S. Read;Dawn Field

  • Spatial and temporal changes in chlorophyll-a concentrations in the River Thames basin, UK: are phosphorus concentrations beginning to limit phytoplankton biomass?

    M.J. Bowes;E. Gozzard;A.C. Johnson;P.M. Scarlett

  • Molecular detection of predation by soil micro-arthropods on nematodes.

    Daniel Steven Read;Samuel Keir Sheppard;Michael William Bruford;D. M. Glen

  • The effect of filtration method on the efficiency of environmental DNA capture and quantification via metabarcoding.

    Jianlong. Li;Lori Jayne. Lawson Handley;Daniel S.. Read;Bernd. Hänfling

  • The impact of sequencing depth on the inferred taxonomic composition and AMR gene content of metagenomic samples

    H. Soon Gweon;Liam P. Shaw;Jeremy Swann;Nicola De Maio

  • Soil pH effects on the interactions between dissolved zinc, non-nano- and nano-ZnO with soil bacterial communities

    Daniel S. Read;Marianne Matzke;Hyun S. Gweon;Lindsay K. Newbold

  • Niche and local geography shape the pangenome of wastewater- and livestock-associated Enterobacteriaceae.

    Liam P. Shaw;Kevin K. Chau;James Kavanagh;Manal AbuOun

  • Impacts of climate change, land-use change and phosphorus reduction on phytoplankton in the River Thames (UK)

    Gianbattista Bussi;Paul G. Whitehead;Michael J. Bowes;Daniel S. Read

  • Identifying multiple stressor controls on phytoplankton dynamics in the River Thames (UK) using high-frequency water quality data

    M.J. Bowes;M. Loewenthal;D.S. Read;M.G. Hutchins

  • Online fluorescence spectroscopy for the real-time evaluation of the microbial quality of drinking water

    J.P.R. Sorensen;A. Vivanco;M.J. Ascott;D.C. Gooddy

  • A cost-effectiveness analysis of water security and water quality: impacts of climate and land-use change on the River Thames system

    P. G. Whitehead;J. Crossman;B. B. Balana;M. N. Futter

  • Optimising sample preparation for FTIR-based microplastic analysis in wastewater and sludge samples: multiple digestions.

    Serena Cunsolo;John Williams;Michelle Hale;Daniel S. Read

  • Toxic interactions of different silver forms with freshwater green algae and cyanobacteria and their effects on mechanistic endpoints and the production of extracellular polymeric substances

    Cameron Taylor;Marianne Matzke;Alexandra Kroll;Daniel S. Read

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael J. Bowes
Michael J. Bowes Natural Environment Research Council
Derrick W. Crook
Derrick W. Crook University of Oxford
Nicole Stoesser
Nicole Stoesser University of Oxford
Tim E. A. Peto
Tim E. A. Peto University of Oxford
Dan Lapworth
Dan Lapworth British Geological Survey
Mark J. Bailey
Mark J. Bailey Natural Environment Research Council
Bernd Hänfling
Bernd Hänfling University of Hull
A. Sarah Walker
A. Sarah Walker University of Oxford
Robert Sebra
Robert Sebra Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Claus Svendsen
Claus Svendsen Imperial College London

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