As can be seen from the evaluation criteria mean droplet diameter, the roundness, and the mode, the BonNDTinspect-system showed good sensitivity to all contaminations.
The genes GSF2 and MPO were not subjected to further analyses due to high sensitivity to genomic DNA contamination, indications of splice variants, or low primer efficiency.
Genes marked with were excluded from the study due to high sensitivity to genomic DNA contamination, indications of splice variants, or low primer efficiency.
All genomic predictors show some sensitivity to normal tissue contamination and ideal strategies for mitigating this bias vary depending upon the particular genes and computational methods used in the predictor.
In order to evaluate the species sensitivity to organic contaminants under field conditions, L. pholis were collected at six sites reflecting different degrees of anthropogenic contamination.
Increasing the sensitivity to detect cross-contamination ten-fold (to 0.1%), would require increasing the spike-in level ten-fold.
In addition, increase in assay sensitivity achieved by a large number of PCR cycles may lead to increased sensitivity to bacterial and/or amplicon contamination.
The increase in cost of installing collection, filtration and storage units will be more than compensated for by improved quality, reduced risk of contamination, reduced sensitivity to seasonality, increased sustainability as well as increased public acceptance.
However, a nonlinear dependence (e.g. an upper contamination threshold) could change the sensitivity to flock size and the impact of transmission mode assumptions.
Because of their sensitivity to pollutants, terns are sometimes used as indicators of contamination levels.
