List of works - Simon Creer

100 years of anthropogenic impact causes changes in freshwater functional biodiversity

scientific article published on 7 November 2023

A common garden design reveals population-specific variability in potential impacts of hybridization between populations of farmed and wild Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L.

scientific article published on 27 January 2016

A diversity of diversities: Do complex environmental effects underpin associations between below‐ and above‐ground taxa?

scientific article published on 15 May 2024

Above-below surface interactions mediate effects of seagrass disturbance on meiobenthic diversity, nematode and polychaete trophic structure

scientific article published on 04 October 2019

Acidity promotes degradation of multi-species environmental DNA in lotic mesocosms

article

Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi

scientific article published on 10 July 2024

An integrated spatio-temporal view of riverine biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding

scientific article published in 2024

Ancient geological dynamics impact neutral biodiversity accumulation and are detectable in phylogenetic reconstructions

scientific article published in 2021

Animals, protists and bacteria share marine biogeographic patterns

scientific article published on 15 April 2021

Annual time-series analysis of aqueous eDNA reveals ecologically relevant dynamics of lake ecosystem biodiversity

scientific article

Assessing the phylogenetic utility of four mitochondrial genes and a nuclear intron in the asian pit viper genus, Trimeresurus: separate, simultaneous, and conditional data combination analyses

scientific article

Can long-range PCR be used to amplify genetically divergent mitochondrial genomes for comparative phylogenetics? A case study within spiders (Arthropoda: Araneae)

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

Challenges to Implementing Environmental-DNA Monitoring in Namibia

scientific article published on 17 January 2022

Choosing and using introns in molecular phylogenetics.

scientific article published on 14 June 2007

Competition and phylogeny determine community structure in Müllerian co-mimics

scientific article published in January 2011

Connecting high‐throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site‐based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis

scientific article published on 15 January 2021

Convergence of multiple markers and analysis methods defines the genetic distinctiveness of cryptic pitvipers

scientific article published on 8 July 2015

Cosmopolitanism of microbial eukaryotes in the global deep seas.

scientific article

Cryptic diets of forage fish: jellyfish consumption observed in the Celtic Sea and western English Channel

scientific article published on 12 March 2019

DNA Metabarcoding Methods for the Study of Marine Benthic Meiofauna: A Review

scientific article published in 2021

DNA metabarcoding—Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions

scientific article published on 29 April 2019

DNAqua-Net: Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Europe

scientific article (publication date: 29 November 2016)

De novo species delimitation in metabarcoding datasets using ecology and phylogeny

scholarly article published 3 August 2017

Deep segregation in the open ocean: Macaronesia as an evolutionary hotspot for low dispersal marine invertebrates

scientific article published on 13 April 2019

Detection of introduced and resident marine species using environmental DNA metabarcoding of sediment and water

scientific article published on 09 August 2019

Detection of novel and resident marine species using environmental DNA metabarcoding of sediment and water

Development and application of microsatellites in Carcinus maenas: genetic differentiation between Northern and Central Portuguese populations

scientific article

Disentangling the effects of sex, life history and genetic background in Atlantic salmon: growth, heart and liver under common garden conditions

scientific article published on 07 October 2020

Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems

scientific article published on 07 March 2019

Diversity and community composition of pico- and nanoplanktonic protists in the Vistula River estuary (Gulf of Gdańsk, Baltic Sea)

scientific article

Does density influence relative growth performance of farm, wild and F1 hybrid Atlantic salmon in semi-natural and hatchery common garden conditions?

scientific article

Domestication-induced reduction in eye size revealed in multiple common garden experiments: The case of Atlantic salmon (<i>Salmo salar</i> L.).

scientific article published on 21 September 2021

Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: a review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap

scientific article published on 16 May 2020

Environmental DNA for wildlife biology and biodiversity monitoring

scientific article

Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities.

scientific article published on 16 September 2017

Environmental DNA monitoring of oncogenic viral shedding and genomic profiling of sea turtle fibropapillomatosis reveals unusual viral dynamics

scientific article published in 2021

Environmental DNA provides higher resolution assessment of riverine biodiversity and ecosystem function via spatio-temporal nestedness and turnover partitioning

scientific article published on 03 May 2021

Environmental DNA size sorting and degradation experiment indicates the state of Daphnia magna mitochondrial and nuclear eDNA is subcellular

scientific article published on 29 August 2019

Environmental metabarcoding reveals heterogeneous drivers of microbial eukaryote diversity in contrasting estuarine ecosystems

scientific article

Epistatic regulation of growth in Atlantic salmon revealed: a QTL study performed on the domesticated-wild interface

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Erratum: Environmental DNA for wildlife biology and biodiversity monitoring

scholarly article published in Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Evaluation of mesofauna communities as soil quality indicators in a national-level monitoring programme

scholarly article by Paul B.L. George et al published December 2017 in Soil Biology and Biochemistry

Evolutionary drivers of kype size in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): domestication, age and genetics

scientific article published on 17 April 2019

Executing multi-taxa eDNA ecological assessment via traditional metrics and interactive networks

scientific article published on 21 April 2020

Experimental harvesting of fish populations drives genetically based shifts in body size and maturation

scientific article published in 2013

Fauxcurrence: simulating multi‐species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography

scientific article published in 2022

Genetic and ecological correlates of intraspecific variation in pitviper venom composition detected using matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) and isoelectric focusing

scientific article

Global Spore Sampling Project: A global, standardized dataset of airborne fungal DNA

scientific article published on 30 May 2024

High throughput shotgun sequencing of eRNA reveals taxonomic and derived functional shifts across a benthic productivity gradient

scientific article published on 24 July 2020

How quantitative is metabarcoding: a meta-analytical approach

scientific article published on 07 December 2018

Inclusion of nuclear intron sequence data helps to identify the Asian sister group of New World pitvipers

scientific article

Introduction: Special issue on species interactions, ecological networks and community dynamics – Untangling the entangled bank using molecular techniques

scientific article published on 01 January 2019

Investigating the molecular systematic relationships amongst selectedPlesionika(Decapoda: Pandalidae) from the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published in 2012

Jellyfish on the menu: mtDNA assay reveals scyphozoan predation in the Irish Sea.

scientific article published on 29 November 2017

Key Questions for Next-Generation Biomonitoring

scientific article published on 08 January 2020

Long-Term Drought and Warming Alter Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in an Upland Heathland

scientific article published on 19 October 2021

Managing human-mediated range shifts: understanding spatial, temporal and genetic variation in marine non-native species

scientific article

Marine ecology: Genetics from a drop in the ocean

scientific article published on 04 January 2017

Metagenetic analysis of patterns of distribution and diversity of marine meiobenthic eukaryotes

article

Molecular characterization of a marine turtle tumor epizootic, profiling external, internal and postsurgical regrowth tumors

scientific article published on 01 February 2021

Multigene molecular systematics confirm species status of morphologically convergent Pagurus hermit crabs

scientific article (publication date: 2011)

Offshore insular variation in the diet of the Taiwanese bamboo viper Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Schmidt).

scientific article published in August 2002

Optimal Intron Analyses in the Trimeresurus Radiation of Asian Pitvipers

article

Performance of amplicon and shotgun sequencing for accurate biomass estimation in invertebrate community samples

scientific article published on 18 April 2018

Phylogenomics and species delimitation for effective conservation of manta and devil rays

scientific article published on 09 November 2020

Plant and soil communities are associated with the response of soil water repellency to environmental stress

scientific article published on 05 June 2019

Plastic and heritable components of phenotypic variation in Nucella lapillus: an assessment using reciprocal transplant and common garden experiments

scientific article

Plastic and heritable variation in shell thickness of the intertidal gastropod Nucella lapillus associated with risks of crab predation and wave action, and sexual maturation

scientific article

Plasticity in growth of farmed and wild Atlantic salmon: is the increased growth rate of farmed salmon caused by evolutionary adaptations to the commercial diet?

scientific article

Predicting function from sequence in a large multifunctional toxin family

scientific article

Publisher Correction: Detection of introduced and resident marine species using environmental DNA metabarcoding of sediment and water

scientific article published on 07 February 2020

Revealing higher than expected meiofaunal diversity in Antarctic sediments: a metabarcoding approach

scientific article

SNP discovery in European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus, L) by high-throughput transcriptome and genome sequencing

scientific article

Salinity drives meiofaunal community structure dynamics across the Baltic ecosystem

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Sample size effects on the assessment of eukaryotic diversity and community structure in aquatic sediments using high-throughput sequencing

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Seasonal progression and differences in major floral resource use by bees and hoverflies in a diverse horticultural and agricultural landscape revealed by DNA metabarcoding

scientific article published on 24 February 2022

Second-generation environmental sequencing unmasks marine metazoan biodiversity

scientific article

Second-generation sequencing derived insights into the temporal biodiversity dynamics of freshwater protists

scientific article

Sequencing our way towards understanding global eukaryotic biodiversity

scientific article (publication date: April 2012)

Shifts in honeybee foraging reveal historical changes in floral resources

scientific article published on 14 January 2021

Strategies for sample labelling and library preparation in DNA metabarcoding studies

scientific article published on 22 September 2021

Subtle shifts in microbial communities occur alongside the release of carbon induced by drought and rewetting in contrasting peatland ecosystems.

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

Systematic and evolutionary insights derived from mtDNA COI barcode diversity in the Decapoda (Crustacea: Malacostraca).

scientific article

Targeting optimal introns for phylogenetic analyses in non-model taxa: experimental results in Asian pitvipers

article

Temperate airborne grass pollen defined by spatio-temporal shifts in community composition

scientific article published on 08 April 2019

Temporal Patterns of Honeybee Foraging in a Diverse Floral Landscape Revealed Using Pollen DNA Metabarcoding of Honey

scientific article published on 08 May 2022

Temporal change in floral availability leads to periods of resource limitation and affects diet specificity in a generalist pollinator

scientific article published on 24 October 2022

The biogeography of the atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) gut microbiome

scientific article

The ecologist's field guide to sequence-based identification of biodiversity

scientific article published in 2016

The importance of being genomic: Non-coding and coding sequences suggest different models of toxin multi-gene family evolution

scientific article published on 7 September 2015

Tideless estuaries in brackish seas as possible freshwater-marine transition zones for bacteria: the case study of the Vistula river estuary

scientific article published on 9 December 2016

Transcriptomics and in vivo tests reveal novel mechanisms underlying endocrine disruption in an ecological sentinel, Nucella lapillus.

scientific article

Using DNA Metabarcoding to Identify Floral Visitation by Pollinators

scientific article published on 25 March 2022

Using DNA metabarcoding to investigate honey bee foraging reveals limited flower use despite high floral availability.

scientific article published on 16 February 2017

Whole genome duplication and transposable element proliferation drive genome expansion in Corydoradinae catfishes

scientific article published in February 2018

List of works by Simon Creer

100 years of anthropogenic impact causes changes in freshwater functional biodiversity

A common garden design reveals population-specific variability in potential impacts of hybridization between populations of farmed and wild Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L.

A diversity of diversities: Do complex environmental effects underpin associations between below‐ and above‐ground taxa?

Above-below surface interactions mediate effects of seagrass disturbance on meiobenthic diversity, nematode and polychaete trophic structure

Acidity promotes degradation of multi-species environmental DNA in lotic mesocosms

Airborne DNA reveals predictable spatial and seasonal dynamics of fungi

An integrated spatio-temporal view of riverine biodiversity using environmental DNA metabarcoding

Ancient geological dynamics impact neutral biodiversity accumulation and are detectable in phylogenetic reconstructions

Animals, protists and bacteria share marine biogeographic patterns

Annual time-series analysis of aqueous eDNA reveals ecologically relevant dynamics of lake ecosystem biodiversity

Assessing the phylogenetic utility of four mitochondrial genes and a nuclear intron in the asian pit viper genus, Trimeresurus: separate, simultaneous, and conditional data combination analyses

Can long-range PCR be used to amplify genetically divergent mitochondrial genomes for comparative phylogenetics? A case study within spiders (Arthropoda: Araneae)

Challenges to Implementing Environmental-DNA Monitoring in Namibia

Choosing and using introns in molecular phylogenetics.

Competition and phylogeny determine community structure in Müllerian co-mimics

Connecting high‐throughput biodiversity inventories: Opportunities for a site‐based genomic framework for global integration and synthesis

Convergence of multiple markers and analysis methods defines the genetic distinctiveness of cryptic pitvipers

Cosmopolitanism of microbial eukaryotes in the global deep seas.

Cryptic diets of forage fish: jellyfish consumption observed in the Celtic Sea and western English Channel

DNA Metabarcoding Methods for the Study of Marine Benthic Meiofauna: A Review

DNA metabarcoding—Need for robust experimental designs to draw sound ecological conclusions

DNAqua-Net: Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment and monitoring of aquatic ecosystems in Europe

De novo species delimitation in metabarcoding datasets using ecology and phylogeny

Deep segregation in the open ocean: Macaronesia as an evolutionary hotspot for low dispersal marine invertebrates

Detection of introduced and resident marine species using environmental DNA metabarcoding of sediment and water

Detection of novel and resident marine species using environmental DNA metabarcoding of sediment and water

Development and application of microsatellites in Carcinus maenas: genetic differentiation between Northern and Central Portuguese populations

Disentangling the effects of sex, life history and genetic background in Atlantic salmon: growth, heart and liver under common garden conditions

Divergent national-scale trends of microbial and animal biodiversity revealed across diverse temperate soil ecosystems

Diversity and community composition of pico- and nanoplanktonic protists in the Vistula River estuary (Gulf of Gdańsk, Baltic Sea)

Does density influence relative growth performance of farm, wild and F1 hybrid Atlantic salmon in semi-natural and hatchery common garden conditions?

Domestication-induced reduction in eye size revealed in multiple common garden experiments: The case of Atlantic salmon (<i>Salmo salar</i> L.).

Ecosystems monitoring powered by environmental genomics: a review of current strategies with an implementation roadmap

Environmental DNA for wildlife biology and biodiversity monitoring

Environmental DNA metabarcoding: Transforming how we survey animal and plant communities.

Environmental DNA monitoring of oncogenic viral shedding and genomic profiling of sea turtle fibropapillomatosis reveals unusual viral dynamics

Environmental DNA provides higher resolution assessment of riverine biodiversity and ecosystem function via spatio-temporal nestedness and turnover partitioning

Environmental DNA size sorting and degradation experiment indicates the state of Daphnia magna mitochondrial and nuclear eDNA is subcellular

Environmental metabarcoding reveals heterogeneous drivers of microbial eukaryote diversity in contrasting estuarine ecosystems

Epistatic regulation of growth in Atlantic salmon revealed: a QTL study performed on the domesticated-wild interface

Erratum: Environmental DNA for wildlife biology and biodiversity monitoring

Evaluation of mesofauna communities as soil quality indicators in a national-level monitoring programme

Evolutionary drivers of kype size in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar): domestication, age and genetics

Executing multi-taxa eDNA ecological assessment via traditional metrics and interactive networks

Experimental harvesting of fish populations drives genetically based shifts in body size and maturation

Fauxcurrence: simulating multi‐species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography

Genetic and ecological correlates of intraspecific variation in pitviper venom composition detected using matrix-assisted laser desorption time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF-MS) and isoelectric focusing

Global Spore Sampling Project: A global, standardized dataset of airborne fungal DNA

High throughput shotgun sequencing of eRNA reveals taxonomic and derived functional shifts across a benthic productivity gradient

How quantitative is metabarcoding: a meta-analytical approach

Inclusion of nuclear intron sequence data helps to identify the Asian sister group of New World pitvipers

Introduction: Special issue on species interactions, ecological networks and community dynamics – Untangling the entangled bank using molecular techniques

Investigating the molecular systematic relationships amongst selectedPlesionika(Decapoda: Pandalidae) from the Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea

Jellyfish on the menu: mtDNA assay reveals scyphozoan predation in the Irish Sea.

Key Questions for Next-Generation Biomonitoring

Long-Term Drought and Warming Alter Soil Bacterial and Fungal Communities in an Upland Heathland

Managing human-mediated range shifts: understanding spatial, temporal and genetic variation in marine non-native species

Marine ecology: Genetics from a drop in the ocean

Metagenetic analysis of patterns of distribution and diversity of marine meiobenthic eukaryotes

Molecular characterization of a marine turtle tumor epizootic, profiling external, internal and postsurgical regrowth tumors

Multigene molecular systematics confirm species status of morphologically convergent Pagurus hermit crabs

Offshore insular variation in the diet of the Taiwanese bamboo viper Trimeresurus stejnegeri (Schmidt).

Optimal Intron Analyses in the Trimeresurus Radiation of Asian Pitvipers

Performance of amplicon and shotgun sequencing for accurate biomass estimation in invertebrate community samples

Phylogenomics and species delimitation for effective conservation of manta and devil rays

Plant and soil communities are associated with the response of soil water repellency to environmental stress

Plastic and heritable components of phenotypic variation in Nucella lapillus: an assessment using reciprocal transplant and common garden experiments

Plastic and heritable variation in shell thickness of the intertidal gastropod Nucella lapillus associated with risks of crab predation and wave action, and sexual maturation

Plasticity in growth of farmed and wild Atlantic salmon: is the increased growth rate of farmed salmon caused by evolutionary adaptations to the commercial diet?

Predicting function from sequence in a large multifunctional toxin family

Publisher Correction: Detection of introduced and resident marine species using environmental DNA metabarcoding of sediment and water

Revealing higher than expected meiofaunal diversity in Antarctic sediments: a metabarcoding approach

SNP discovery in European anchovy (Engraulis encrasicolus, L) by high-throughput transcriptome and genome sequencing

Salinity drives meiofaunal community structure dynamics across the Baltic ecosystem

Sample size effects on the assessment of eukaryotic diversity and community structure in aquatic sediments using high-throughput sequencing

Seasonal progression and differences in major floral resource use by bees and hoverflies in a diverse horticultural and agricultural landscape revealed by DNA metabarcoding

Second-generation environmental sequencing unmasks marine metazoan biodiversity

Second-generation sequencing derived insights into the temporal biodiversity dynamics of freshwater protists

Sequencing our way towards understanding global eukaryotic biodiversity