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Gentile Francesco Ficetola
Researcher at University of Milan
Publications - 283
Citations - 11898
Gentile Francesco Ficetola is an academic researcher from University of Milan. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biodiversity & Population. The author has an hindex of 48, co-authored 250 publications receiving 9230 citations. Previous affiliations of Gentile Francesco Ficetola include University of Milano-Bicocca & Centre national de la recherche scientifique.
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Species detection using environmental DNA from water samples.
TL;DR: A novel approach, based on the limited persistence of DNA in the environment, to detect the presence of a species in fresh water, using specific primers that amplify short mitochondrial DNA sequences to track the existence of a frog in controlled environments and natural wetlands.
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Replication levels, false presences and the estimation of the presence/absence from eDNA metabarcoding data.
Gentile Francesco Ficetola,Johan Pansu,Aurélie Bonin,Eric Coissac,Charline Giguet-Covex,Marta De Barba,Ludovic Gielly,Carla Martins Lopes,Frédéric Boyer,François Pompanon,Gilles Rayé,Pierre Taberlet +11 more
TL;DR: The level of replication required for accurate detection of targeted taxa in different contexts was evaluated and whether statistical approaches developed to estimate occupancy in the presence of observational errors can successfully estimate true prevalence, detection probability and false‐positive rates was evaluated.
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Prediction and validation of the potential global distribution of a problematic alien invasive species — the American bullfrog
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used both land use and climatic and land use layers to evaluate the habitat suitability for the American bullfrog Rana catesbeiana, a major invasive species that is among the causes of amphibian decline.
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An In silico approach for the evaluation of DNA barcodes
Gentile Francesco Ficetola,Gentile Francesco Ficetola,Eric Coissac,Stéphanie Zundel,Tiayyba Riaz,Wasim Shehzad,Julien Bessière,Pierre Taberlet,François Pompanon +8 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a standard method for evaluating barcode quality, based on the use of a new bioinformatic tool that performs in silico PCR over large databases, is presented.
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Updated distribution and biogeography of amphibians and reptiles of Europe
Neftalí Sillero,João Carlos Campos,Anna Bonardi,Claudia Corti,Raymond Creemers,Pierre-André Crochet,Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic,Jelka Crnobrnja Isailovic,Mathieu Denoël,Gentile Francesco Ficetola,João Gonçalves,Sergei Kuzmin,Petros Lymberakis,Philippe de Pous,Ariel Rodríguez,Roberto Sindaco,Jeroen Speybroeck,Bert Toxopeus,David R. Vieites,David R. Vieites,Miguel Vences +20 more
TL;DR: This analysis serves as a preliminary step towards an interactive, dynamic and online distributed database system (NA2RE system) of the current spatial distribution of European amphibians and reptiles and highlights the need to add temporal and altitudinal data for all records to allow tracking potential species distribution changes.