Study
# Decay rate constant Filter pore size [µm] Fragment size [bp]
Target gene
Temperature [°C]
Water source
Target taxa
Thomsen et al. (2012) 2 0.45 101 to 104 mt 15 Seawater Fish
Barnes et al. (2014) 1 1.2 146 mt 25 Freshwater Fish
Maruyama et al. (2014) 1 0 100 mt 20 Artificial Fish
Strickler et al. (2015) 3 0.45 84 mt 5 to 35 Artificial Amphibian
Eichmiller et al. (2016) 4 0.2 149 mt 5 to 35 Freshwater Fish
Forsström & Vasemägi (2016) 1 0 75 mt 17 Artificial Crustacean
Sassoubre et al. (2016) 5 0.2 107 to 133 mt 19 to 22 Seawater Fish
Andruszkiewicz et al. (2017) 2 0.22 107 mt 17 Seawater Fish
Jo et al. (2017) 2 0.7 127 to 719 mt 26 Seawater Fish
Lance et al. (2017) 4 0.22 190 mt 4 to 30 Artificial Fish
Minamoto et al. (2017) 1 0.7 151 mt 19 Seawater Invertebrate
Sansom & Sassoubre (2017) 6 0.4 147 mt 22 Artificial Invertebrate
Sigsgaard et al. (2017) 2 0.22 105 mt 35 to 36 Seawater Fish
Tsuji et al. (2017) 6 0.7 78 to 131 mt 10 to 30 Freshwater Fish
Weltz et al. (2017) 2 0.45 331 mt 4 Seawater Fish
Bylemans et al. (2018) 12 1.2 95 to 515 mt & nu 20 Artificial Fish
Collins et al. (2018) 8 0.22 132 to 153 mt 10 to 15 Seawater Fish & Crustacean
Cowart et al. (2018) 1 0.45 70 mt -1 Seawater Fish
Nevers et al. (2018) 2 1.5 150 mt 12 to 19 Seawater Fish
Nukazawa et al. (2018) 2 0.7 149 mt 21 to 22 Freshwater Fish
Jo et al. (2019) 12 0.7 127 mt 13 to 28 Seawater Fish
Moushomi et al. (2019) 4 0 to 0.2 101 to 128 mt & nu 20 Artificial Invertebrate
Sengupta et al. (2019) 1 0 86 mt 23 Artificial Invertebrate
Jo et al. (2020) 12 0.7 164 nu 13 to 28 Seawater Fish
Kasai et al. (2020) 5 0.7 138 mt 10 to 30 Seawater Fish
Sakata et al. (2020) 1 0.7 132 mt 17 Freshwater Fish
Wood et al. (2020) 4 3 90 to 150 mt 19 Seawater Invertebrate