Detecting Mekong giant catfish using environmental DNA
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Re: Detecting Mekong giant catfish using environmental DNA
Nice approach
As fish don't leave trails such as footprints or excrements fit for recognition, such as mammals do, knowing whether a very rare species is around is obviously hard. This technique might solve that problem - and in fact, it could result in an ending of sampling - just fetch water, analyze it for the known species and the trick is done.
As fish don't leave trails such as footprints or excrements fit for recognition, such as mammals do, knowing whether a very rare species is around is obviously hard. This technique might solve that problem - and in fact, it could result in an ending of sampling - just fetch water, analyze it for the known species and the trick is done.
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Re: Detecting Mekong giant catfish using environmental DNA
Hi all,
They've trialled environmental mitochondrial DNA (eDNA) in ponds in the UK to see if they contain Great Crested Newts (Triturus cristatus) <http://www.enzygo.com/articles/great-crested-newts.pdf>.
cheers Darrel
They've trialled environmental mitochondrial DNA (eDNA) in ponds in the UK to see if they contain Great Crested Newts (Triturus cristatus) <http://www.enzygo.com/articles/great-crested-newts.pdf>.
cheers Darrel