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Supervised machine learning outperforms taxonomy-based environmental DNA metabarcoding applied to biomonitoring.

Tristan Cordier¹, Dominik Forster², Yoann Dufresne^1,3

¹Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

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Supervised machine learning accurately predicts environmental impact from DNA data, regardless of marker type. This approach surpasses traditional DNA identification methods for biodiversity monitoring.

Keywords:

biomonitoring biotic indices environmental DNA predictive models supervised machine learning

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Area of Science:

Environmental Science
Molecular Biology
Bioassessment

Background:

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding offers advantages over traditional biodiversity monitoring.
Supervised machine learning (SML) can predict biotic indices from eDNA data without taxonomic identification.
The influence of marker taxonomic resolution and comparison with bioindicator species-based methods remain unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate how taxonomic resolution of molecular markers affects SML model accuracy for eDNA bioassessment.
To compare SML performance using different markers against taxonomy-based metabarcoding.
To assess the environmental impact of marine aquaculture using SML and various markers.

Main Methods:

Trained predictive models using five different ribosomal bacterial and eukaryotic markers.
Applied models to independent datasets for assessing marine aquaculture's environmental impact.
Compared model performance across markers and against taxonomy-assigned sequence assessments.

Main Results:

All tested markers yielded accurate predictive models for environmental impact assessment.
SML models consistently outperformed assessments based solely on taxonomically assigned sequences.
No significant performance difference was observed between universal eukaryotic and prokaryotic markers.

Conclusions:

SML with eDNA metabarcoding provides accurate bioassessment regardless of marker's taxonomic resolution.
The SML approach overcomes limitations inherent in taxonomy-based eDNA bioassessment.
This method enhances environmental impact assessment for anthropogenic activities.