Who's in this Ocean? Tracking Down Species on Go Using Environmental DNA
Sloughed off skin and bodily fluids are things most people would prefer to avoid. But for marine biologist like Cheryl Lewis Ames, Associate Professor of Applied Marine Biology in the Graduate School of Agricultural Science at Tohoku University (Japan), such remnants of life have become a magical key to detecting the unseen. Any organism living in the ocean will inevitably leave behind traces containing their DNA – environmental DNA (eDNA) – detectable in water samples collected from the ocean Only recently has molecular sequencing technology become advanced enough to conduct eDNA analysi...
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